Word: moralisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...treaties with amendments that would, in effect, force the Administration either to abandon the accord or reopen negotiations with Panama. If this tactic fails, he will try to dilute the treaties with Senate-passed reservations, which would not be legally binding but would commit the U.S. in a moral way, with unpredictable practical effect...
...core proposal passes, Social Analysis courses will probably include "Principles of Economic," Equality and Inequality," and "Heredity and the Environment," Moral Philosophy courses will cover areas such as "Civil Rights and Constitutional Law," and "Theory and Practice of Democratic Government...
...elected by districts and a new mayor will solve the problem. The School Committee, however, does not run the schools; the court-appointed experts do. The City Council is powerless to layoff teachers, administrators, city workers, or cut pension costs because of unions and state law. No amount of "moral leadership" from the mayor will convince Bostonians to accept the busing plan. Obviously reform is not so simple as these people suggest...
...House's decision to obstruct the use of Medicaid funds for non-therapeutic abortions is a rare demonstration of sensitivity to a particularly complex moral question that the full Congress should uphold...
...biological possibility exists that this is the case. Given this possibility, the government must accord the fetus the same rights it grants the average criminal suspect: the assumption that it is innocent, until proven guilty, of being an "expendable" member of society. Until proof exists to the contrary, any "moral justification" for abortion simply does not exist...