Word: moral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When our leaders' invasion of other nations is not a responsible action, but motivated by greed for favorable trade and cheap labor, or fear sparked by various far-fetched versions of the Domino Theory, they fall into the same moral category...
...like an adult sensibility to the action movie, a belief, shared by such classicists of the genre as John Ford and Howard Hawks, that besides telling a rattling good yarn at a nerve-busting pace, pictures of this kind can carry a theme, even -- shocking word these days -- a moral...
...bunch of white guys are tarnishing the rest of the West's whites. Somebody ought to be concerned with the oppressed and not reforming the oppressor. You can't teach cancer a lesson. But the real problem is that it always seems that America, when it goes on a moral romp, insists that in order for a people to be free they must be West...
Reagan's greatest contribution to the conservative moral agenda has been through his appointments to the federal judiciary. So far, however, he has had only mixed success with the Supreme Court. Although the high court has recently shown a willingness to be more restrictive in its interpretation of free speech and privacy rights, it is still at least one vote away from reversing its 1973 abortion decision...
...questionable election result was a blow to President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado's vaunted campaign of "moral renovation." In 1983, De la Madrid's first year in power, Mexico enjoyed rare fraud-free elections. P.A.N. won mayorships in all of the seven largest cities of Chihuahua. P.R.I. officials privately vowed not to let such a calamity recur. Last year the ruling party resorted to flagrant irregularities while securing victory in elections in two northern states; in December it changed Chihuahua's laws so that the preparation and tallying of votes would be undertaken by P.R.I. agents. Such practices, however...