Word: moral
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Certainly, second wives, bent on protecting their own brood, have more moral authority than the men who have already left one brood behind. But even they may not be any match for market forces. New York City is considering a proposal from investment bankers at Morgan Stanley to get immediate payments to first families by selling high-interest bonds based on the assets of deadbeat parents. The Mommy-munis would be backed by the full force of the child-support-collection apparatus...
...swam against a notoriously drug-aided East German team, is a straight-arrow in the matter of performance-enhancing substances. When the U.S. authorities refused to ban 15-year-old freestyler Jessica Foschi, who had tested positive for a steroid, Evans objected that the team was throwing away its moral right to object, for instance, to drug use by the Chinese. And then a pint-size, cheeky 15-year-old named Brooke Bennett, who reminded some people of a younger Janet Evans (and who beat Evans soundly in the 400 free in May 1995), began to make chirping noises that...
...PBHA's name in the community, and our moral responsibility to clients, that we're trying to guarantee," he said...
There is nothing on the Rosie O'Donnell Show to upset the stomach--no ill-kempt yokels flaunting their unseemly moral transgressions ("Stripped at uncle's bachelor party"). O'Donnell has modeled her syndicated show, which was launched last week to winning ratings, partially after those of cozy entertainers Dinah Shore, Merv Griffin and Mike Douglas. "What I liked about Mike Douglas," O'Donnell says, "is that everyone who came on his show appeared to be his friend. No one looked nervous." And indeed, O'Donnell is anything but intimidating...
Some people manage to find purpose despite this, making from wholly earthly values a sufficient basis for moral choice and a meaningful life. Love--even if it can be reduced to psychological explanations--can still make the world go round. Justice--even if its origin is political--can still be legitimate. Beauty--even if its perception is hostage to the taste of local tribes--can still move the spirit...