Word: ethical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those moments are special, but his true value to baseball and Boston, the work ethic he brought to the game, can only be borne out in his career statistics. Games--3308. Runs--1816. Hits--3419. Doubles--646. Home Runs--452. RBIs--1844. Walks...
...result of such programs, combined with Black demand for them, is a conservative backlash. These policies have fostered the idea that Blacks will eternally require more preferential treatment (i.e. are innately inferior) and that Blacks will never develop the work ethic of American political culture, among other of its aspects. In the workplace and the university, affirmative action leaves the nagging suspicion among all involved that Blacks are taking the place of more qualified whites...
...forget she used to keep pigs to the nosy, noisy maid whose fractured syntax includes the news that an acquaintance is a patient at "Mount Cyanide." In Santeiro's shrewdest insight, the villain is not a religious humbug but a larcenous Lothario masquerading as an embodiment of the work ethic, and the cant he peddles is based on an immigrant assimilationist version of the American Dream...
...moral ethos of the U.S. These prominent Wasp bastions nurtured the founders, imparting to them notions of republican government and individual freedom. Dominating American Protestantism, these churches shaped virtually every aspect of an evolving nation: its pioneering colleges, its 19th century novels of sin and rectitude, its capitalist ethic of striving and saving, and a world-conquering spirit that was shared by missionaries and entrepreneurs alike. Mainliners were at the forefront of social crusades from independence to abolition, women's suffrage to Prohibition, civil rights to Viet Nam protests...
...Indian reservation. He was tutored by two German chemists flown in by his father. Bernard can't pronounce methylmethamphetamine, but he knows how to make something very like it and how much to charge. "I've worked hard for everything I have," Bernard says, proudly citing the enduring American ethic...