Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...truth is they can. And they probably will. And Obama, despite his popularity and moral indignation, has few tools to stop them. The Treasury Department has already concluded that the bonuses in question, which were first made public in late January, cannot be rescinded because they resulted from airtight contracts that had been signed in April...
...openness about science and protect scientists, released at the same time. This marks a far greater departure from the Bush administration and cuts to the heart of the debate on many issues, such as conservation and global warming, in discounting the “false choice between science and moral values.” As I pointed out in an earlier column, the Bush administration was often directly antagonistic to concerns of scientists, allegedly editing releases about global warming, silencing a top climatologist through NASA, and pressuring the surgeon general not to discuss the dangers of secondhand smoke...
...child in El Salvador, who he provides [funding] for her schooling and medical necessities.” Becker said that notifying workers of layoffs and hours-reductions on such short notice is not illegal or a breach of contract, but does “break a whole host of moral values.” “The fact that a worker can be notified with less than one day’s notice...is part of a systemic problem that is at its core [representative of] the very limited legal protections” enjoyed by American workers today, Becker...
...questions that surround him add to his darkness,” he says. “He comes out as having the right approach in a lot of ways, but I’m not sure that it’s argued that it’s a moral approach.”This refusal to judge what is morally correct is, for Walker, another of the play’s key attractions. “My ideal situation would be people walking out of the theatre thinking, ‘Who do I align with...
...that isn’t saying much since the man plays himself. Like a gawky teenager lumbering at a school dance, “Miss March” is a film awkwardly unsure of itself. The characters don’t come of age or learn any substantive moral lesson, and the attempt at emotional sincerity feels about as injected and synthetic as the breasts of Hugh’s Playboy bunnies. When removed from their sketch comedy environment, it seems The Whitest Kids U’Know can only deliver a drawn-out lesson of “bros...