Word: credos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Progressive-era muckrakers interpreted a newspaper's responsibility as its commitment to defend community members who lacked the blessings of liberty. Joseph Pulitzer, who purchased the New York World in the 1880s, left the journalism profession a legacy of yellow reporting, but he also left a credo that challenges newspapers to serve their community. "A free press should always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties, never belong to any party, always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy for the poor, always remain devoted to the public welfare...
Sometimes dubbed Singapore, Inc., the nation had its credo set by visionary economic architect Goh Keng Swee: "Government policy must be directed to the pursuit of business excellence." The country is the world's busiest container port, the third largest oil-refining center, the major exporter of computer disk drives. Its manufacturing relies on multinational corporations, and it has attracted some 3,000 foreign companies with generous tax breaks, ultramodern telecommunications, an efficient airport and tame labor unions...
This season's credo: fun in the 20s, angst...
Most wearers recently accosted in the Square cite comfort as the main reason for wearing the trendy sandals. The old credo of the fashion-conscious, "It's better to look good than to feel good," appears to falling by the wayside...
...Tennessee native and his wife went to India after graduating from the University of Chicago in 1948 to study economics and Gandhi's civil disobedience tactics. They wrote about their findings in India Afire and proposed that the American civil rights movement adopt nonviolence as a credo...