Word: government
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Given the passionate arguments that are raging over the state of moral instruction in this country, it is no wonder Goleman chose to focus more on neutral emotional skills than on the values that should govern their use. That's another book--and another debate...
...politics, as in poetry, tone is fundamental. Citizens expect their governments not only to govern, but to do so with frankness, gravity and calm. Small wonder then that so many Americans are fed up with the ever more strident tone of contemporary politics...
...Mary Anne Sharkey, political editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer; "Economic, Social, and Political Forces Affecting Women's Lives. The Search for Solutions," led by Ellen Snee, who worked on the Harvard Project on Women's Psychology and Girls' Development and now teaches at Boston University; "Can a Nation Govern itself When Its Citizens Don't Trust Their Government?" led by Jolene Unsoeld, former Democratic member of the House of Representatives...
...sentence before that in the pamphlet reads, "The following [free speech] guidelines are intended to apply to all gatherings under the auspices of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, but they are not intended to govern classroom procedures...
...fact, even McCarty's modest private effort implicates the government in overt racial discrimination in several ways. It will be administered by a state university. The business contri bu tions presumably will be tax-de ductible. Above all, the Oseola McCarty Scholarship Fund--and in deed all private, so-called voluntary affirmative action--causes the govern ment to be racially biased in its po l icy toward private discrimination. The government would quickly step in to stop even a sweet old lady from setting up a whites-only scholarship fund. That would clearly violate about 18 laws, including...