Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Heritage Foundation's Robert Rector, who more than anyone else used O'Neill's work to urge copycat laws elsewhere, says, "I never expected O'Neill's results in the first place, but even if she's wrong, giving new money for new babies just sends the wrong moral message and should be stopped on those grounds alone." Laracy is focused on the kids and argues just the opposite: "Cut off from benefits, they'll be worse off, with a greater chance to be abused, to be ill fed and to do poorly in life...
...France, sky-high French inflation taught a 13-year-old Gingrich that "when a government cheats its own people by inflating the currency rather than facing tough political decisions, it is inviting trouble." On the return trip to America, the teenager vowed to change the world: "There was no moral choice except to immerse myself inthe process of learning how to lead and how to be effective." Previous TIME Daily Campaign...
...most common response to Dole's argument is to view the debased content of American entertainment as a symptom, rather than a cause, of the nation's moral decay. As Frank Rich wrote in a recent opinion piece for the New York Times, "I'm no fan of dr. Dre...but I disagree with Mr. Dole's theory that ugly words are the causes, rather than the effects, of American pathologies...
...problem with this hastilydrawn conclusion is that the choice between these tow explanations is not an either/or proposition. The two possibilities are by no means mutually exclusive. Certainly the content of American entertainment reflects the moral decline of our nation. All of us, Senator Dole included, can agree on that. But the absence of solid values in movies and popular music also accelerates the very debasement of our society that it testifies to. Just because our culture reflects what we think and do doesn't mean it can't simultaneously affect our beliefs and our actions as well...
...also frighten us is that almost all of us have enjoyed films and television shows that have drawn on casual violence, casual sex or both. No one group in American society has a monopoly on the enjoyment of such "entertainment;" no one group can proclaim its innocence. Similarly, the moral decline of our nation also recognizes none of the established boundaries that divide our society in almost every other area imaginable...