Word: revealing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When confronted with a moral problem--whether or not a poor man should steal a drug for his dying wife that the druggist would not give him--the boy and girl responded differently in ways that, according to Gilligan, reveal the two distinct moral voices...
...Kohlberg's scale, Amy is placed on a lower level than Jake because she "seemed to reveal a feeling of powerlessness in the world, an inability to think systematically about the concepts of morality...
...that Reagan actually raised taxes 22% for those earning less than $10,000 a year, while families making between $20,000 and $30,000 "stayed even." By contrast, those earning between $100,000 and $200,000 got an 8% tax cut, worth $8,916 a year. Mondale promises to reveal next week a plan to reduce the deficit by two-thirds by 1989. But many political observers wonder whether he can be specific about spending cuts without offending the traditional Democratic constituencies...
...aboriginal bones are yielding some particularly important findings. Scientists had long assumed that the original Australians migrated to the continent from Indonesia about 10,000 years ago and, isolated from the influence of other societies, had been culturally trapped in the Stone Age. But recent studies of skeletons reveal the aborigines as a far more ancient people. There appears to be evidence from bone structure of two distinct migrations of modern man's predecessor, Homo erectus, to Australia some 40,000 years ago, one from Java and the other from China...
...never alone, yet he seems lonely to most who know him. Though there is frequently an attractive woman near by, his only real romance is in the lyrics he sings. Is he a sex symbol? He laughs and pulls up his trouser legs to reveal skinny legs above white socks. "Not when I look in the mirror in the morning," he says. "But my goal is to make people dream. When they see me onstage, their fantasy of me and the reality meet. I seduce them. But I must seduce myself first...