Word: moralisms
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...ready to try another New World power play, sending an army to Mexico to collect debts and later installing an Austrian archduke as emperor. The U.S., distracted by the Civil War, did nothing at first. But in 1866 it demanded that the French withdraw and offered moral and diplomatic support when the Mexicans overthrew the imperial puppet regime soon thereafter...
Rebuke for stem-cell research New Jersey Governor John Corzine spent $150,000 of his own money on a measure to create state-funded stem-cell research. But taxpayers balked at the $450 million price tag; pro-lifers fought it on moral grounds. It became the first statewide ballot initiative rejected by New Jersey voters in 17 years...
...METER Anointing Romney The man often described as the father of the religious right has thrown his support behind Mitt Romney, becoming the latest social conservative A lister to give the former Massachusetts Governor his blessing. In announcing his endorsement, Moral Majority co-founder Paul Weyrich praised Romney's "clear conservative vision" and "exceptional record of putting conservative values to work." And he sent a plain message to wavering Christian-right leaders who have threatened to bolt the GOP if either Romney, a Mormon and recent convert on abortion, or the pro-choice Rudy Giuliani are nominated: stay the course...
...putting one’s money—or one’s time—where one’s mouth is should take, patterns of wealth attribution and spending start to seem less like a byproduct of an arbitrary situation and more like symptoms of deeper-running moral convictions...
...Like many young alums, Golis understands the nearly impossible choice graduating seniors face, but stresses that it is not an impossible one. “You don’t want to exempt people from making moral choices, because the market shouldn’t determine how you live your life, but you can’t put all of the weight on individual choices,” he says. “It’s important that we understand the way in which the structure of our society has made these choices harder and harder...