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Word: morale (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stake in this meeting is how far universities are willing to go to take moral responsibility for their practices. Last year, workers from a Dominican Republic hat factory licensed by Harvard, speaking in front of University Hall, told us that they are paid 8 cents for each $20 hat they make, that the factory lacks safe drinking water and that workers are routinely fired for trying to organize. The American garment industry grosses $2.5 billion per year from the sale of university-licensed products manufactured in plants such as these. Harvard can help to stop this immoral impoverishment by adopting...

Author: By Benjamin L. Mckean, | Title: The New Student Activism | 2/17/1999 | See Source »

...three men trying to cope with these mid-ether collisions of dollars and expectations are an unlikely team. Greenspan, the data-loving analyst with government roots sunk back into the financial and moral chaos of the Nixon Administration, and a shaman-like power over global markets. Rubin, the Goldman Sachs wonder boy who ran the firm's complex and dangerous arbitrage operations and then led it to rocket-ship international growth. And Summers, the Harvard-trained academic who is invariably called the Kissinger of economics: a total pragmatist whose ambition sometimes grates but whose intellect never fails to dazzle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Three Marketeers | 2/15/1999 | See Source »

...have any doubt that this country has lost its sense of moral outrage, take a look at the delayed start of the National Basketball Association season. In prouder times, no self-respecting nine-to-fiver would have clamored to get into an exhibition game after being taken for granted during a six-month labor scrum between billionaire owners and millionaire slam-dunk artists. That fan would have followed Michael Jordan's lead and walked away from the game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New (and Old) NBA | 2/15/1999 | See Source »

...weaves fatal mischief. "Give me what I want," he says, "and I'll go away." But if that gift were your own blood, would you offer it up to save your town? King's first original mini-series script is a marathon of communal anxiety with a spooky moral: we are ready to mortgage our children for our own restless comfort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stephen King's Storm Of The Century | 2/15/1999 | See Source »

...would sit onour hind legs and gaze at the sunset. I like to dothis very much." After this irony, Herbertcompounds the effect with a ladder which we allought to climb and then kick out from beneath us:"Don't follow the wolf, dear children. Don'tsacrifice yourselves to the moral...

Author: By Benjamin E. Lytal, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Zbigniew H. Dies, a Master | 2/12/1999 | See Source »

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