Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...troubling shift in American attitudes" when people get fed up with inflation and high taxes? Barter is the most ancient of economic systems. If it is indeed an "underground economy," I hope it takes root and becomes the start of a moral and economic revolution...
...soon as his glistening white yacht el-Houriya (Freedom) docked at Haifa port. After receiving a 21-gun salute and watching a fly-over by ten Israeli Kfir jet fighters, Sadat expressed his determination "to spread the umbrella of peace to include the Palestinian people," adding: "This is a moral commitment to which we will remain faithful at all tunes...
According to Cabot, however, moral and social questions do filter into the profit-oriented minds of the Harvard Management Company through its ties with the Corporation and the ACSR. Harvard Management is aware, Cabot says, that when corporations face social problems they very often will face related financial problems...
...other words, in Cabot's view, when a company, or the Harvard Management Company for that matter, is oblivious to potentially explosive social or moral issues, it will run into financial difficulties. The Management Company, therefore, keeps tabs on the activities of the ACSR to foresee any social and financial problems that may confront an investment...
Like so many relationships in Harvard's administration, that between the Corporation and Harvard Management is ambiguous from the outside. Someone may be taking moral considerations into account in deciding where Harvard invests its money, but it's hard to figure out just who that...