Word: ethically
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
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...
...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...
...vote for Burger King with their feet. Perhaps it was part of a secret plot: Hire fewer people in order to put pressure on the customer to look after his own garbage. At first folks might grumble a bit, but eventually they would comply and adhere to some unspoken ethic of self-service in order to save McDonald's money...
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...