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Lacking a universal code, many people have tried to substitute specific rules. Says Ethicist Daniel Callahan, co-founder and director of the Hastings Center think tank near New York City: "When most people talk about morals, they are concerned with laws and regulations and codes." When laws do not exist to regulate a particular situation, "we assume it is pretty much every person for himself...
...nice and sunny the other day so I went out my garage and pulled the dustcover off my M-48 tank. She's a real beaut, vintage Korean-War model from back in the days of no-holds-barred V-8's and regular gasoline. I was about to start her up when I realized that the chrome and enamel "Kill" stick shift knob was missing. It's not like you can just walk into a tank shop and order a new one. Nowadays they're made of plastic with the words. "Drive safely" on them. It just wouldn...
...just want one part. The gearshift knob fell of my tank...
Phillip Myburgh, a law student who drafted a denunciation of all remaining apartheid laws that 800 legal scholars approved last month, thinks this is already happening. "What is going on here," he says, "is the incubation of Afrikanerdom's future thought." If he is right, the government's think tank could one day be better known as the place that played a decisive role in the transformation of Afrikanerdom...
...depressed. Manufacturers Hanover's profits, for example, fell 21%, to $81 million, while Chase Manhattan's dropped 28%, to $104.1 million. "Compared to making loans, investment banking is a low-risk field," says William Haraf, a visiting scholar on financial deregulation at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington think tank...