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Some see it as a way of filling the ranks of the military at a time when the pool of new 18-year-olds is shrinking. Others regard it primarily as a way to foster a work ethic while meeting the nation's domestic needs: restoring parks, cleaning up inner cities, repairing roads, caring for the elderly, tutoring children. Proponents of the idea still disagree as to what extent the program should be mandatory or voluntary. Yet there is growing talk these days among politicians of various stripes about instituting in the U.S. some form of national service, a program...
Sugrue's work ethic and ability to win in so many events has made her a coach's dream...
Taylor's work ethic has also been inspirational. After practice, Taylor often will spend 10 to 15 minutes with Harvard Assistant Coach Ronn Tomassoni, skating between the blue lines, building up speed...
...American sculptor who tried to make metaphors of technology, not even Calder, came up with an object as striking as Walter Teague's "Bluebird" radio, 1937-40, whose integration of a spartan constructivist design ethic into an American sense of technology as spectacle -- the big blue glass disk suggesting the ether from which broadcast signals were gathered -- shows how little truth there is in the idea that design is condemned to lag behind "high" art in expressive clarity. We certainly need more shows as thorough and intelligent as this one, to counteract the vulgar mania for "art stars" and remind...
Getting a good job in America often depends on being part of a culture that instills ambition, provides examples of the work ethic and, not least of all, offers personal connections to potential employers. But the migration of successful blacks out of the ghetto has left it populated by the less skilled and the less hopeful. Most ghetto shops and small businesses are run by outsiders. Says Harriet McAdoo of Howard University's Department of Social Work: "Unlike kids in black communities in earlier years, where poor and not- & poor were in the same school together, kids today...