Word: ethically
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...best to reverse these recalcitrant policies and attitudes toward American homosexuals. It is ironic that gay people, whose average income is above the national average should be so abhorred by the Right; homosexuals, as an economically successful and politically active group, seem to exemplify the American work ethic and the ideological purity which conservative uphold as praiseworthy goals. Tolerance, a fundamental American concept, has been forgotten by a President who vows to thwart various Americans' attempts to secure their inalienable rights. President Reagan should wipe his slate clean and grant homosexuals what he promised the rest of American...
...described in various books and articles a type of personality that has become increasingly familiar: men and women who, as he puts it, are managers by day and swingers by night. Since then, contemporary observers have been intrigued, if not worried, by this corruption of the Protestant work ethic whereby hard driven men and women leave their offices at night for the self indulgent lifestyle of the singles...
...been slow to punish what it forbade. Not until the 1920s was the first Cabinet-level official convicted of bribery (former Interior Secretary Albert Fall in the Teapot Dome scandal). By the time of Watergate, the anticorruption ethic was so extensive that a number of Nixon officials ended up in jail after hush money was offered to the burglars. Noonan even suggests that the campaign against corruption may now conflict with other standards. Of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, which made it a crime for companies to bribe officials abroad, Noonan remarks that "no such law had ever...
Carpentry taught him things he could never have learned in acting school. The first was the work ethic, which he had not grasped while growing up in the protected world of a Chicago suburb. Once so lazy that he had flunked out of Wisconsin's Ripon College in his senior year, he became accustomed to picking up his hammer and saw early in the morning and continuing until the job was finished. "Now I find it difficult to enjoy myself when I'm not working," he says. "And I am not able to distract myself when I'm waiting around...
...supposed to come later. In the '60s, work was pitted against leisure, work was the trap your parents were in." Yuppies expect their work to be rewarding, challenging, creative. "There is no moral virtue today attributed to self-denial," says Yankelovich. "Mondale was the personification of the social ethic of self- denial. He is the 1950s. For many of these young people, he came across as a nagging parent: 'You have to get a job, you have to pay taxes.' But Reagan's message is, 'The world's your oyster. Go out and get what you want...