Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fooled. Proposition 1 is not about taxes, and it is not about the state's moral neutrality. It is about social control, oppression of low-income people and the New Right's attempt to throw women back into the kitchen and the bedroom. Kim Ladin...
Protection of the poor has always been advanced as the primary justification for rent control; however, it is the middle-and upper-middle classes who are the primary beneficiaries of the system. Such middle-and upper-middle income people are given a subsidy unrelated to their needs and a "moral justification" for receiving it. After all, rent control in Cambridge, according to its enabling act, was a response to a housing emergency that was burdensome "especially for families of low and moderate income." The truth is that the system doesn't especially benefit low-and moderate-income people...
Cicero is an unlikely hero, Segal says, because for most of his life, he was the quintessential politician. "He was a Lyndon Johnson type. He was very successful, and basically bent with the wind. He was never a moral leader," says the writer. "Cicero was a major figure in contributing to the world of great power, great money and great corruption, but at the end of his life, he fought against this corruption. It was heroic, because he didn't have to do it. He could have just led a rich, quiet and safe life in retirement...
...overwhelming majority of the U.S. Congress, however, felt that practical considerations have come to be outweighed by moral ones. The sanctions package, said an elated Congressman Mickey Leland, chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, "is absolutely the best we could do." Leland celebrated the Senate victory by joyfully hugging Randall Robinson, executive director of the antiapartheid lobbying group Transafrica. Indiana Republican Richard Lugar, the measure's Senate sponsor, summed it up: "Today the American people spoke in a strong and determined voice against racial injustice in Africa...
Just what were all those hookers doing in the hallowed halls of the European Parliament in Brussels last week? The moral outrage echoing in the corridors may have suggested that a re-creation of Sodom and Gomorrah was being staged. Reason: about 125 prostitutes, including three men, were attending the Second World Whores Congress. They were in Brussels at the invitation of the Green- Alternative European Link, an alliance of environmentalist and independent leftist parties...