Word: ethical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...DCBGBWC moniker was a thinly disguised front for the notorious Dartmouth Review. Ten members of the demolition crew were staff members of the Review, including Flanagan, who is vice president of the outspoken journal. All 12 say they are adherents of the paper's controversially conservative ethic...
...poor can be forgotten in the name of remembering the protestant work ethic, then pluralism can be forgotten in the name of returning to our puritan roots. Private values, he told us last night, are at the root of public policy...
Welfare has been a political battleground since federally financed public assistance was made law under the Social Security Act of 1935. Traditionally, conservatives have viewed welfare programs as handouts to the poor and an | insult to the American work ethic. Liberals generally have considered it compassionate compensation for victims of economic and social circumstances beyond their control. But with the startling growth in the number of children being born to unwed mothers from the underclass, many of welfare's long- standing supporters have begun to question whether Aid to Families with Dependent Children programs may be exacerbating the problems they...
...market ethic can spring up anywhere. You can go to the combat zone for commodity sex, bid for a career at college, or purchase an experience at an upbeat New York nightclub...
Preparing her roles, Battle applies the hard-work ethic she absorbed as a child. For her forthcoming Susanna at the Met, she has gone back to the Beaumarchais play for hints to the resourceful maid's character. "He says that Susanna has a ready laugh, which tells worlds about her. She can laugh in the face of one complicated situation after another," she notes. But more significant clues are to be found in the music. "Even the music laughs," she says. "When she sings, 'Ding, ding,' in her duet with Figaro, the orchestra goes, 'diddle, diddle, diddle dum,' which...