Word: moral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...secretary said the "moral difference" between the two superpowers forces the U.S. to develop SDI and bolster its military arsenal to make it clear to the Soviets that "it would be in their national interest not to fight and not to launch an attack...
Answering Fried's statement that the people should be allowed to determine the laws of society through their elected representatives, Tribe said "good American virtues refracted by an elitist lens can degenerate into a narrow, parochial imposition of one set of general moral values upon another...
...joint television address from the family quarters of the White House on the subject of drug abuse. "They wanted to do it together, from their home to our homes, as parents and friends, as well as the First Couple," said Spokesman Larry Speakes. By his noted powers of moral suasion, Reagan hopes to do nothing less than make drugs socially unacceptable...
...with failure and despair, provides a ripe market for the world's drug supply, which will always exist as long as there is the demand for it. Experts point to other deep-seated causes that produce a continued national craving for drugs: lack of community, disintegration of the family, moral laxity, the relentless pressure to perform in a fast-paced society. "The real remedies to the problem don't satisfy Americans' urge for a quick fix," says Ted Galen Carpenter of the CATO Institute, a Washington think tank. "It's a long, laborious process." Merely preaching about the evils...
...charter of the movement defines it as a forum to apply "moral force" in international relations as part of the search for world peace. But, said Gaddafi, "to hell with international peace." Unless U.S. policy changes, he said, an international revolutionary army of resistance fighters should be sent out to combat the U.S. throughout the world. He urged other countries to "light a fire under the feet of the U.S." He also attacked Zaire, Cameroon and the Ivory Coast "as puppets of imperialism" because they had restored ties with Israel...