Word: weal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...citizen but are distributed down a lengthy chain of delegated command. All too often, public unions argue their case before officials who lack the authority-or the will-to negotiate solutions. Public employees are also aware that, while their opponent across the negotiation table supposedly represents the public weal, his bargaining stance is frequently determined by political expedience-and the sheer desire for political survival...
...Rosenwald, who developed this sentiment while giving away most of his $700 million mail-order fortune (Sears, Roebuck & Co.). Andrew Carnegie was uneasily convinced that "the man who dies rich dies disgraced," and to avoid that humiliation, he began investing a personal estate of $400 million in the public weal. In 1911, after twelve years of uninterrupted and unprecedented generosity, he still had $150 million left. Carnegie solved the problem by establishing the Carnegie Corporation of New York and endowing it with $125 million, thereby setting a pattern that other rich Americans have since copied with exponential zeal. Despite...
...proved highly effective. In light of the public sector's enormous labor growth, however, the experts argue that strong laws alone will no longer do. Sound bargaining and judicious injunctions, they say, are the modern way to help political leaders avoid strikes and aid the public weal...
...17th century came the beginnings of the modern idea of the family with the child at its center. With greater concern for children and more schooling came a new stage of life between childhood and adulthood: adolescence, a new combination of weal and woe that has profoundly altered human institutions and attitudes...
Although he stressed healing the town-gown split in the City's weal-thier sections, he played it down elsewhere. "I was caught in a bind," he explains. "I'm on record as dedicated to breaking down the resentment, but I want to get elected." For both politi- cal and ideological reasons he is unwilling to abandon CCA endorsement, yet friends say it hurt him significantly in the traditionally non-CCA areas in which he grew up or has strong ties. "No one was willing to tell me this before the election," he muses...