Word: ethical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pipeline. It is to their advantage to spread the fixed amount of work over a longer time than would be ordinarily required, since this will increase employment. And due to "cost-plus" increased labor costs don't mean smaller profits for ALYESKA. "There just isn't a work ethic on the pipeline; in fact, you will probably be yelled at if you work too hard. You are supposed to spread things out as much as possible," Faulkner said...
...King and many others wanted to believe that if we could tear down the discriminatory signs, obtain some favorable rulings by the courts and push the Congress to pass remedial legislation, the nation would react in accord with those precepts and principles of its boasted religious ethic. It was hoped and by some believed, that the vast majority in this country would opt to develop a nation undergirded by tolerance, forgiveness, non-violence and love...
...BROUHAHA and hubbub once raised against corporate control of American life has pretty well died down since radicalism went out of style. But the movement against the corporate ethic of mass production, mass advertising, mass consumption, and mass waste goes on in more constructive ways...
Among the governors of the N.F.L., such talk is heresy. They insist that football is America, manliness, work ethic, integration and Vince Lombardi saying for the thousandth time, "Winning isn't everything. It's the only thing." This, if it means anything at all, means that Lombardi saw a movie called Trouble Along the Way in 1953. Playing a football coach in that film, John Wayne mouthed the lines that everyone now attributes to Lombardi...
...Death with dignity" has become a recurrent phrase in the ethical deliberations of recent years. But this ethic usually is cited in the context of euthanasia, or mercy killing, as in the much-publicized case of Karen Quinlan, rather than in the context of capital crimes. Until Gilmore's request, the responsibility for determining society's role in the fulfillment of an individual's death-wish had been largely confined to doctors in sanitary hospital halls. Now jurists sitting in oak-panelled courtrooms must also contemplate the question...