Word: ethic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brought with me from Villanova the development of a work ethic that Rollie demands from his coaching staff and I've put forth the same at Dartmouth," says Cormier, who helped recruit most of the players on Villanova's 1985 national championship team. "Also, up-tempo basketball and tenacious man-to-man defense was always part of my playing background...
...more injuries in freshman year than most people have in a lifetime," hockey Coach John Dooley says, "and she came back and was terrific--an exceptional leader and the nicest part is that she's extremely coachable. She has a good work ethic and great leadership ability...
...Love Generation traded in its tribal beads for briefcases and business suits, bigotry and prejudice are making a comeback. Underlying this ugly renaissance is a change in the nation's political climate from the idealism that spawned the civil rights movement in the 1960s to the me-first ethic that has flourished in the '80s. Many educators blame recent outbreaks of campus bigotry on the fact that today's students are largely ignorant about past struggles for racial, sexual and economic equality. "We failed to help our children learn the lessons we learned," says Mary Maples Dunn, president of Smith...
These changes in the courtroom ethic have come about gradually. Geoff Packard, a public defender, says, "It's like noticing a glacier moving." He feels he is comfortable with women because, "we grew up in the profession together, that was normality...
...very macho kind of ethic was simply modified in an evolutionary rather than revolutionary way," he says. "We're representing people who everyone else calls `less than worthless.' We few, we happy few, we hang together...