Word: ethical
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President Obama has blamed the current economic crisis on the “ethic of greed” that pervades Wall Street. His view finds much sympathy on “Main Street.” After all, a quick survey of just a few of the financial industry’s titans yields nothing but front-page scandals—from Bernard Madoff, the mysterious asset manager “extraordinaire” who was revealed to be the mastermind behind a wealth-draining Ponzi scheme, to John Thain, the former Merrill Lynch CEO who spent a reported...
...general explanation being fed to the public for our current financial crisis also rests on this “ethic of greed.” Money-grubbing banks, so the tale goes, provided loans to homeowners who were clearly ill-equipped to repay them. Somewhere along the line, Wall Street CEOs and executives ignored their consciences and followed their wallets, seeking high returns while ignoring the potential ramifications of their imprudent lending practices...
...Saturday to capture first place in the event and earn himself an IC4A qualifier.“Nico is obviously a pretty special talent,” Saretsky said of Weiler, who came to Harvard having already competed on the international stage. “His work ethic and his intensity to this sport are a testament to his success.”Fellow rookie Steven Geloneck took sixth in the 60-meter dash, with a time of 7.03, while senior Derek Jones and freshman Chukwuma Ogunwole placed eighth and 13th in the 200-meter dash, finishing...
...There was nothing I wouldn't do, no matter how dirty or hard." - on her work ethic as a supervisor at the tire factory, Agence France Presse, January...
Conley's a sociologist, and at times he writes as if he's submitting a paper for review rather than penning a book for mass-market consumption. Still, Conley's concept of intravidualism - "an ethic of managing the myriad data streams, impulses, and even consciousnesses that we experience in our heads as we navigate multiple worlds" - is fascinating. So is another useful but slightly silly neologism: "weisure," Conley's term for our increasing tendency to work during leisure time, thanks to advances in portable personal technology. As Conley writes, there are fewer and fewer boundaries in the world...