Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like a weasel, Bill Clinton emerges from the drainpipe shinier than when he went in. He has spent a year in the dark, ever since that night last January when he called his slippery guru Dick Morris and asked him to take the country's moral temperature. When Morris' polling suggested that people could stomach an affair but not a cover-up, Clinton's response was his mantra. "Well, we'll just have to win then." Now, on the anniversary of that vow, the President seems to have made good...
...programming director, "Cadillac" Jack McCartney (the nickname says it all) would, I'm sure, not take the moral high ground in defending his station but simply point to its ranking as one of the most listened to stations in Boston for young listeners...
...People are saying, 'How could it happen here, with our high moral standards?'" echoed Corradini, who had lobbied hard and glamorously for the Olympics, and had joyously accepted the five-ring flag during closing ceremonies at last year's Games in Nagano, Japan. "It has tarnished our reputation." Hers, not least. Last week she announced that she would not run for a third term in 2000, though she had dearly wanted to preside over the Olympic festival...
...that a politician's family or sexual life is the public's business, and that an evaluation of this becomes a basis for major political decisions. Instead, it rarely has any relevance to one's ability to be a public servant. Even if it does, it is not a moral but a psychological issue...
House Republicans have finally achieved the unimaginable: they have captured the moral low ground from President Clinton. LYNN R. KAHLE Eugene...