Word: moral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Center for Constructive Alternatives and the Shavano Institute for National Leadership operate. C.C.A. sponsors four seminars a year on various conservative topics. Shavano focuses on free-market economics and "traditional values." Although small, Shavano is influential. In May 1985 in Washington it sponsored a high- profile conference on "Moral Equivalence" at which Jeane Kirkpatrick gave the keynote talk...
...plan worked. The court unanimously readmitted Rose. In a brief concurrence, Burger, again joined by O'Connor, said the record now demonstrated that "the applicant is 'of good moral and professional character.' " Burger maintained, however, that his earlier attack on Rose was justified on the basis of the information then in the court's possession. Rose is satisfied that the outcome proves his point. "Big people and big institutions can be wrong," he says. "You've got to allow for that...
...independent stations across the country. The spot, says W.R. Grace Spokesman Christopher Tofalli, is "done in good taste on an important issue." That's just the problem, says NBC Vice President Rick Gitter: "It's so well done. It expresses a view that budget cuts are a moral imperative." Which was exactly the point. J. Peter Grace, the company chairman, served as head of President Reagan's Commission on Waste and Inefficiency in Government...
...sometimes, as in A Month of Sundays (1975), expressed directly by an agonized clerical narrator. Roger Lambert, another lapsed preacher, comes from this austere region of Updike's imagination, suffering not doubts now but numbness. It is the job of Roger's Version to stir its hero back to moral life...
...traditional Western thought, God created humans in his own image and animals to serve mankind. This anthropocentric view dominated religion and philosophy for more than 2,000 years, and still exerts a powerful influence. But so do our animal instincts, the cause of psychological conflict and moral ambivalence...