Word: moral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arrived late last Friday for the interview, with my friend Amy along for moral support. When we entered Room 525, the two of us were impressed by how nice the room was for a Holiday Inn, and we immediately noticed the camera equipment piled on the double bed. Chan guided us over to a sofa while he finished a newspaper interview. As he spoke to the young reporters, he called on us to corroborate what he was saying...
...would not let him take her application or her picture. She had originally come along with me for moral support, but then decided to play along. But she couldn't go through with it. "What would my dad say?" she asked. Later she thought she might have been a little paranoid, but felt glad that he did not have any pictures or her name. "I just didn't want him to have anything on me. I mean, who knows what might be done with those things...
...easy, compared with the tasks ahead. The once promising Philippine economy is moribund. The military is factionalized and riddled with corruption. A Communist insurgency mounted by the New People's Army threatens large areas of the 7,100-island archipelago. To this staggering array of ills, Aquino brings a moral force and a popularity that will buy her the indulgence and goodwill of the Filipino people, at least for a while. "There are big problems in the + Philippines," said a senior U.S. State Department official last week. "We have always felt that only a government that enjoyed a genuine popular...
...campaign pledge last week to call a six-month cease-fire in the war against the N.P.A., which caused more than 1,200 civilian deaths in 1985. If the guerrillas would disavow violence, she declared, she would offer them amnesty. Said Laurel: "Given a credible government, a democratic moral order and a general amnesty, 90% of the people who are now fighting in the hills would lay down their arms and come home." In Washington, some Philippine experts dismissed such talk as naive. "Their plan seems unrealistic," said Larry Niksch, director of Asian affairs at the Congressional Research Service...
...Balance is about restlessness, rootlessness and desperation, and in one way or another, they are all political. Even the love song In the Shape of a Heart--one of Browne's most beautiful ballads--seems to balance off the weight of a lost affair against the kind of specific moral gravity that can come only from some deeper social commitment. Soldier of Plenty and the title track make glancing observations ("People die for the little things/ A little corn, a little beans") and ask some pointed questions: "I want to know who the men in the shadows are/ I want...