Word: ethical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...government, most valuable player in his basketball league, a Little League star and an accomplished saxophone player. Teachers describe Donny as a natural leader who lights up a room with his charm. His success, says assistant principal Judi Callanan Devlin, "is due to his innate ability and his work ethic--and then his mother is very clear about her expectations...
...originally from Aberdeen, Md. and is loved in Baltimore for his every-day work ethic, a trait prized by the steel workers who comprised a large portion of what was for a long time the Orioles' mostly blue-collar fan base...
...temporary-help agency based in Troy, Mich., started one such program, called Encore. About 14% of Kelly temps are now 55 or older, vs. 10% five years ago. "We can't find enough of them," says Carl Camden, executive vice president of operations. "They have the experience and work ethic employers want." (Camden is too tactful to add that those employers might not want quite so much experience and work ethic if they had to pay for it full-time and incur pension obligations to boot.) Operation able, with seven affiliate offices from Los Angeles to Boston, has built...
...breakaway Oregon City branch was led by Walter White, an authoritarian, apocalypse-preaching pastor known as the Apostle, who died in 1969. After finishing their schooling, church members try to avoid socializing with the outsiders, but several own local businesses. "These are law-abiding people with a good work ethic," says a prosecutor's investigator. "The only way they really differ is in their faith healing...
...more success this generation of welfare recipients has in finding jobs, the more likely it is that their children will be employed when they become adults. Since the work ethic is often learned from parents, more work and less welfare-program participation by parents will discourage children from going on welfare. The real bridge to the 21st century is jobs that teach welfare recipients the skills they need to move up the ladder to self-sufficiency. So long as the bridge isn't roadblocked by government wage and tax policies that destroy entry-level jobs, this success will be passed...