Word: mindset
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Indeed, Obama’s speech speaks to a real, often ignored, distinction between those who think of the world “morally” and those who don’t. It’s an old canard that lumping things in moral categories necessitates a conservative mindset. Some conservatives think this way, and so do some liberals, like Obama. The latter camp, on the other hand, is not “immoral,” but rather “amoral”—for better or worse, it simply doesn?...
...other...We’ve shown we can battle and compete and play with an opponent like [UConn] this year, and now let’s show that we can do that and win—and I’m hopeful that’s the mindset of our kids...
Coach Satinder Bajwa seemed to concur with O’ Donnell’s assessment of Harvard’s mindset...
...members of the football team, the military regimen and the blue-collar mindset translates to destructive execution on the football field...
...fact, say many U.S. officers, the Afghan mindset works against building a military force. Afghans have a "God-willing mentality" that "delays progress for all routine and major actions," U.S. Army Colonel Scot Mackenzie wrote in a study for the Army War College last year. Information is power, and senior leaders hold on to it tightly. They prefer faxes to e-mails because they like "paper in their hands, as opposed to data on a disk," Mackenzie said. Such tendencies freeze "subordinates into doing nothing until specifically ordered," he added. "Taking risk or initiative has historically been seen...