Word: ethical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WRITING about the new doubts concerning the traditional American work ethic, Donald Morrison found last week, can be hard work. "For one thing," he says, "the elements in this essay are so compelling and interwoven that you can summarize them no more easily than a Nabokov novel. And journalists are so accustomed to burning the midnight bulb that you have to remind yourself repeatedly that things can be different in other lines of work...
Saigon Bureau Chief Stanley Cloud can serve as Exhibit A of the work ethic in journalism. "In Viet Nam," he says, "correspondents routinely labor twelve hours a day. When you are not covering the story, you are writing about it; when you are not writing about it, you are talking about it." Late last week the Saigon bureau learned the outlines of the secret peace plan reliably reported to have been developed in Paris. Cloud's report became the principal part of our cover story on the negotiations. Timothy James, a veteran of many late-breaking stories...
Nixon's own welfare-reform plan was advanced three years ago by Daniel Moynihan, a Kennedy Democrat who used his charms and powers of persuasion as a presidential assistant to help win over Nixon's more conservative inclinations. Buried in the ore of a tough work-ethic requirement for the able-bodied on welfare were the Administration's glittering liberal jewels: 1) a guaranteed annual income eventually set as $2,400 for a family of four, 2) income supplements for the working poor, and 3) an extension of coverage to all male-headed families, since many states...
...President took office, the national rate of unemployment was 3.6 per cent. During his administration, unemployment soared to over 6 per cent of the work force. Today, after all the ballyhoo of his New Economic Policy, the unemployment rate is 5.5 per cent. Although committed noisily to the work ethic, Nixon has done little to counteract the worst spell of unemployment in recent years. The overwhelming proportion of his tax benefits go to big business. The rich profit greatly from investment credits and advanced depreciation. In the short run, unfortunately, while the rich become wealthier the unemployed remain jobless. Richard...
...enjoyment and benefit of the people," he told TIME Correspondent Bonnie Angelo last week. "Unless you are prepared to walk into parks with a pack on your back, Congress intended that there should be roads. The real crunch coming in this country is to articulate an environmental ethic to guide corporate and human conduct -and this speaks basically to the issue that man is part of his environment. The practical problem is that we know exactly how many elk a park can handle ecologically, but not how many people. I have said 'No more physical facilities' until...