Word: moralizes
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...brave new element, of course, was the $300 billion elimination of the tax on corporate dividends. This one, the White House says, is for the stock market and the old folks, and also, Bush stressed, because "double taxation is wrong." (The application of morality to fiscal policy is a relatively recent entry into the field of economics, but Bush seems to have a pretty steady moral compass for this sort of thing.) There was some other stuff, too: help for the jobless through unemployment-benefits extensions and funding state "re-employment" accounts, and some small-business breaks those folks have...
...last time race was an issue in cricket, it led to the isolation of South Africa. Those who favor a boycott of Zimbabwe point out that it was an effective tool against the apartheid regime. But Bacher, now head of the World Cup organizing committee, says the moral grounds behind the ban on his team don't apply to Zimbabwe. "South Africa had a whites-only team because of apartheid," he says. "Zimbabwe has a fully integrated, multiracial team. There is no comparison." At week's end, a boycott remained a strong possibility, but the English and Australian governments, cricket...
...tremendous influence on me: "Never allow yourself to be intimidated; always think about the consequences of your actions." I think this is a wake-up call for the country. There's a responsibility for all Americans--teachers, mothers, fathers, college professors, corporate people--to help and make sure the moral and ethical fabric of the country is strong...
...American interests but as universal truths applicable to all nations and all problems. In international affairs, he lived by a clear identification of what was good and what was evil, and he believed in inclining American policy so that it supported the former; he was a great believer in moral clarity...
...George W. Bush he was describing but Woodrow Wilson. When Wilson set off for the peace conference in Paris at the end of World War I, he was, said John Maynard Keynes (the source of the waspish comments above) endowed with a "prestige and a moral influence throughout the world unequaled in history." Conventional wisdom holds that he wasted these assets. As Margaret MacMillan documents in her new history, Paris 1919, Wilson's commitments to self-determination, democracy and nation building (although the phrase was not then in vogue) were frequently frustrated at the peace conference by Europeans interested mainly...