Word: creed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whether we, as individuals, have benefited from the actions of a President must always take back seat to some conception of the commonweal some higher sense of purpose for us a nation. Ronald Reagan has reversed this creed of government and placed the twin values of greed and self-interest as the centerpiece of his Administration, and he now bids the American voters to ratify this vision. That he is apparently successful is testimony only to the genial Californian's skillful use of television to sway Americans from their fundamental generosity of spirit. We profoundly reject Ronald Reagan's vision...
...words in length--becomes crucial to the message left with the voters. At this particular debate, the panelists were allowed to phrase the same question in subtly different terms for each candidate, a common practice in the campaign as a whole. Perception, nuance, image--all concepts antithetical to the creed of objective journalism, and all crucial to the running of day-to-day news enterprises, especially...
...sort of person who volunteers to join the military is not the sort of person who goes to the library to look up the military's record. As Tom Lehrer '47 noted in jest two decades ago, "Not only does the military prohibit discrimination the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on the grounds of ability...
...nature ... the church can persuade an individual not to have an abortion; but the church cannot persuade an individual to restrain the nuclear arms race. By its very nature, this is a choice that belongs to the state." So, "to give effect to the moral values of their creed," it is legitimate for churches to influence the state on nuclear weaponry but not on abortion...
...symptomatic of Kerry's campaign that even his safest proclamations of the liberal creed of morality and care should sound hollow. He has yet to adequately convince voters that he has evolved from his brash days as leader of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, when he gained a reputation among many as a hollow, unconvincing activist...