Word: ethically
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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...
...brought with me from Villanova the development of a work ethic that Rollie demands from his coaching staff and I've put forth the same at Dartmouth," says Cormier, who helped recruit most of the players on Villanova's 1985 national championship team. "Also, up-tempo basketball and tenacious man-to-man defense was always part of my playing background...