Word: helpfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Back in the early 70's, the American Shipbuilding Company, Steinbrenner's vocation, had some problems with the government. A longtime contributor to the Democratic Party, Steinbrenner knew about political finance, so when Herbert Kalmbach asked for a little help for his boss, the meaning was clear. So Steinbrenner generously opened his wallet for Richard Nixon in 1972. Illegally. And he got caught...
...that behind him, preferring to moralize on the state of our collective national soul. "I worry in this country when we don't go out of our way to help people less fortunate....We give away billions of dollars every year, and yet we have millions in our own country living below the poverty level," he says...
While Olney called the federal help "a good thing--we will take any money we can get," he added that the workers "aren't through with Advent...
...Stockdale was named president of the Naval War College, which sits on a wind swept point overlooking Narragansett Bay. Among his first acts was to draft Joseph Brennan, 68, professor emeritus of philosophy at Columbia University, to help him design and teach a course on military morality. "The twists and turns of the fortunes of war have a way of throwing operational skippers and others out into new decision-making territory where all previous bets are off," says Stockdale...
...experiences probably qualify him as much as anyone alive to lead career military officers into the labyrinth of moral questions that have come out of Viet Nam. Ethics is taught in many forms in service academies and postgraduate institutions. But Stockdale wants to create a model specifically designed to help the military "regain our bearings." Says he: "Today's ranks are filled with officers who have been weaned on slogans and fads of the sort preached in the better business schools-that rational managerial concepts will cure all evils. This course is my defense against the buzzword-nomograph-acronym...