Word: moralizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...public only after congressional prodding, was delayed for nearly two months by a sharp split in the Administration. Health authorities believe that the best AIDS prevention consists of candid information and safe-sex techniques like condom use, while conservative officials hold that chastity and marital sanctity are the only moral methods for preventing its spread...
...salary. Webb Bassick, a partner at Hewitt Associates, a consulting firm, estimates that as many as 15% of all large public companies have such packages. Among them are Mobil, America West Airlines and Diamond Shamrock, an oil conglomerate. Says Bassick: "It's refreshing to see companies looking at their moral obligation to employees" -- and countering corporate raiders at the same time...
...million to be spread around the entire country can hardly solve the problem. But the symbolism was important. In a nation that prides itself on its economic comeback from recession, the spectacle of people huddling around trash-can fires is ethically embarrassing. One makes five or ten serious moral choices (give money, pass them by, what?) on the way to work, and as many coming home, and the conscience at last is frayed. Says Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, another Democratic presidential aspirant: "The conscience of the nation is beginning to be troubled. People in every city see the homeless lying...
...moral ecology of American politics is altering. Issues that figured in the Reagan revolution -- family values, school prayer, abortion, pornography -- remain powerful. But some of them will be in collision with problems such as AIDS, homelessness, racism, toxic waste, business ethics, nuclear disarmament and the national debt -- a more public agenda, one that veers somewhat away from religion...
When we heard of the Conservative Club's invitation to a representative of South African apartheid, we saw in it a moral imperative to respond by demonstrating the feeling of the Harvard community that support for apartheid is indefensible. As we discussed what action to take as a group, we deliberately committed ourselves to the principles of respecting Duke Kent-Brown's right of free speech. This principle was the guiding consideration and standared by which we formulated our plan. As we wrote in the letter of intent distributed at the time of the action, "we respect his right...