Word: ethically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...learning experience is largely a burden that students carry, not the professors," says Jensen, "which is not a bad rule." However, Jensen adds that for faculty, "it's easy to lay back and be protected form ignorance by the ethic in the classroom that you're not expected to provide the answers...
CONSERVATIVES tend to blame the plight of the homeless on their lack of a work ethic. If they merely pulled themselves up by the boot-straps, some believe, the able-bodied ones could then make a decent living...
...from a small, Midwestern town, Defiance, Ohio, where her father was a Methodist minister," he says. "She has a very pure Midwestern work ethic and people ethic. Coming from that background, she's not a cutthroat, conservative person...
Doss practices a mean work ethic himself. After the meeting with fund raisers, he critiques game films, takes a conference call from Upward Bound girls on campus visits, and works on funding proposals in his living room. There's a curiously unfinished look here: unpapered walls, some exposed studs, sparse furniture. When a cash crunch hit the academy, he and Aline diverted second-mortgage money intended for remodeling and refurnishing. "Hey," he shrugs, "it'll get fixed someday...
...garden of the '60s, when the young were "forever young," as Bob Dylan's later anthem said, fierce and primal juices fired through the nerves. Complexity fell away. Deferrals of pleasure and deferences to age, the old Confucian virtues that had made their way into America through the Protestant ethic, blew away at the concussion of youth. "Don't trust anyone over 30" became the slogan of the conspiracy...