Word: weal
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...health-care system entirely controlled by the government. There are conservatives - Senator Lamar Alexander, Representative Mike Pence, among many others - who make their arguments based on facts. But they have been overwhelmed by nihilists and hypocrites more interested in destroying the opposition and gaining power than in the public weal. The philosophically supple party that existed as recently as George H.W. Bush's presidency has been obliterated. The party's putative intellectuals - people like the Weekly Standard's William Kristol - are prosaic tacticians who make precious few substantive arguments but oppose health-care reform mostly because passage would help Barack...
...students to rally behind the cause of greater minority representation and demand greater dedication to affirmative action from the school.The final complaint, laid at the door of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) by the national women’s rights group Women’s Equity Action League (WEAL) claimed that the positions of two black female research associates at the KSG had been misrepresented to the DOL, labeling them as “instructional” when in reality they had never assumed any teaching role.WEAL also asserted that the reported five job offers extended to women...
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Brands tries to signal a more mature, stately Franklin in the last years of the innovator’s life, but instead sounds as though Franklin is a subject worthy of beatification. “In letters, science and commitment to the common weal, Franklin was the first—in the sense of foremost—American of his generation. Considering the length and breadth of his multiple legacies, he was probably the first American of any generation...
Just as response is local, responsibility--the burden of ensuring that individuals and their families stay healthy--is personal. Seeing to the public weal has always required appealing to the public will. The best bureaucracy in the world can't force wellness on the people it serves. The most it can do is make good health available--providing all the information and resources that people need to take care of themselves. Ultimately, the rest of the caretaking...