Word: moral
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pressure from her boyfriend. He dumped her as a result ... and, gasp, her life went on! And they got back together in the end. I'd call this presenting abstinence as a viable option. What, you don't think that the actions of just one character can have any moral force? Then stop whining about Murphy Brown already...
Jesse Helms, chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, attacked Clinton's recognition of "an unrepentant communist dictatorship." Senate majority leader Bob Dole condemned the move as "a strategic, diplomatic and moral mistake." Yet while both men threatened to block funding for a U.S. embassy in Hanoi, neither cared to acknowledge that the machinery of recognition had been set in motion by George Bush--and that the U.S., together with every other country, continues to have formal relations with all sorts of governments it does not altogether like...
...allows itself to move in a direction that resembles that of Iran? How many Americans will find themselves jailed because of censorship laws? Why do Americans allow themselves to be bullied by extremist religious leaders and hysterical conservatives? Why is so much prison space occupied by perpetrators of victimless, "moral" crimes? BOB ROWELL Collingswood, New Jersey
...have to make a moral and intellectualjudgment on someone who compares Jews to Nazis,"Peretz said in a telephone interview Wednesdayfrom his summer home on Cape...
...Gingrich were just another politician--or just another Speaker of the House--then his self-serving moralizing would be of meager interest. Hypocrisy isn't major news in our species. But Gingrich is making extraordinary claims about the nation and himself. America is "at risk," facing a "genuine crisis," beset by "moral decay"; our very civilization may not "survive." Fortunately, just in the nick of time, comes Gingrich, who by his own account is not just a "genuine revolutionary" but a "transformational figure." You know the type: F.D.R., Lincoln, Moses. Well, people who claim to have a plan for leading...