Word: ethical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gershengorn cites a real change in the court system since her first days as a public defender. At that time, she says, there was a strong prevailing macho ethic. "We fight tough, we drink tough, we are tough," is how she describes the credo of the male lawyers and judges who once dominated courthouses across the state...
...news organization has embraced this ethic more enthusiastically than Gannett, the nation's largest newspaper chain and publisher of USA Today. Credited with one of the industry's best records for hiring and promoting minorities and women at its 88 daily newspapers, Gannett has mounted a campaign to combat what Charles Overby, the vice president for news, calls "the insidious stereotyping that tends to take place by white male managers...
...ethic of social responsibility does notinform Harvard's investment policy," saidWeissman...
That question will not be on any ballot, but it is perhaps the most unambiguous decision facing voters. Dukakis is the apostle of the do-something ethic, while Bush represents mainstream Republican skepticism of new Government programs. That choice undergirds the election, but never have the terms of philosophic battle been defined for the voters. This vagueness provides protective camouflage for Bush, who has artfully used evocative phrases like "a kinder, gentler nation" to mask the passivity of his domestic agenda. He has, to be sure, advanced his own proposals on education and day care, but they do not seem...
Scientists have given Callenbach credit for technical accuracy, and he does seem to have been remarkably prescient in writing about the spread of the garbage- and sewage-recyling ethic, and the growing public demand for "natural" foods. But he doesn't believe America will be ready for some of the more startling sociological changes he predicted until at least 2025. "I am a constitutionally optimistic chap, and I thought at the time I wrote the book that change at those levels would take only a generation -- perhaps it was because of the heady influence...