Word: moralizes
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...These were people at the top of their game," he writes, "who kept score in their lives and who became successful precisely because they were assertive." They were company presidents, managers, writers. They played sports - baseball, football, rugby, judo - and drew life lessons from them. They believed in the moral value of work. They expected the best of themselves and others (one passenger once went out to lunch and sent his cheeseburger back eight times...
...group Aqua and its 1997 hit Barbie Girl long ago. But not Barbie's makers at Mattel. They sued, saying the song sullied Barbie's image. A U.S. judge last week ruled that, as a cultural icon, Barbie is fair game. Europe Gets Defensive So much for the moral high ground. Despite European opposition to the U.S. missile-defense program, European Aeronautic Defense and Space (EADS), Italy's Alenia Spazio and Britain's BAE signed deals to work on the project. Last Things First Russian businesses paid up to $33.5 billion in bribes last year, but Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov...
...needs to tell business leaders to cut out the shenanigans. Bush did exactly that last week with some tough words. But his words were far more ambiguous when he had to explain alleged shenanigans of his own. Dick Cheney offered no answers to similar questions. That undercut Bush's moral authority, and the stock market just kept dropping. --By Mitch Frank...
...several years the government has staged periodic cybercafe raids, usually on the ground that online pornography and violent computer games pose a moral hazard to the nation's youth. But such concerns are only a small part of the campaign to shut down what is, for many Chinese, the main artery to the Internet. What worries control-crazy officials is the Internet's tangle of unmanageable links, which give Chinese uncensored access to "reactionary" news and information sites. Since 2000, the number of Net users in China has quadrupled, to 38.5 million; by 2005 China is set to overtake...
Zinn said the Afghanistan bombing was wrong on a moral level as well...