Finally, the work ethic.

And six, the work ethic.

Who's got the work ethic now?

In fact, the West has lost its work ethic.

Any culture can get the work ethic if the institutions are there to create the incentive to work.

We know this because today the work ethic is no longer a Protestant, Western phenomenon.

And we're getting great reports back from corporate Ghana, corporate West Africa, and the things that they're most impressed about is work ethic.

In essence, the culture of peace approach endeavoured to develop a universal ethic that would inform all aspects of the work of the United Nations system.

Ethic minority scripts will also be published in the near future.

MINUSTAH is working with a deficient National Police which needs major reforms, from recruitment and training to revamping its operational capacity and professionalization of its work ethic.

So I believe that we have an ethic that the Earth grows our food, and we need to move to an ethic in this century that the Earth should grow our homes.

No, we may hang on, despite the huge burdens of debt that we've accumulated, despite the evidence that we've lost our work ethic and other parts of our historical mojo.

Convinced of the need to develop a life sciences ethic at the national and international levels,

Convinced of the need to develop a life sciences ethic at the national and international levels,

We're at a unique moment in history, says UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown we can use today's interconnectedness to develop our shared global ethic and work together to confront the challenges of poverty, security, climate change and the economy.

11. Resolves that the Sub Commission should strive in all of its work to include disaggregated data on the extent to which direct or indirect discrimination and violations of economic, social or cultural rights may be linked to racial, ethic or gender distinctions

You know, we had to be taught to renounce the powerful conservation ethic we developed during the Great Depression and World War II.

So the great project of our generation, it seems to me, is to build for the first time, out of a global ethic and our global ability to communicate and organize together, a truly global society, built on that ethic but with institutions that can serve that global society and make for a different future.

The modern tendency to regard economic differences in terms of religion was stimulated by Max Weber s reflections on the Protestant work ethic. But that interpretation is clearly unsatisfactory, and cannot account for the dynamism of the deeply Catholic world of Renaissance Italy and Flanders.

The group of independent eminent experts is convinced that its work should follow a humanitarian vision of an ethic of human solidarity , based on the central values of human dignity, respect for diversity and the importance of effective measures for the protection of people.

23. We resolve therefore to adopt in all our environmental actions a new ethic of conservation and stewardship and, as first steps, we resolve

Furthermore, reliance on drug money during conflict situations creates a changed ethic which, once peace returns, may well continue in the form of corruption.

A strengthened role for the United Nations in human rights activities could be instrumental in fostering an ethic of trust and cooperation among all nations.

In many aspects, the commitment to an ethic of coexistence is as absent from the events of today as it was half a century ago.

Although some Americans always like to boast about their superior work ethic, this disparity in working hours between the US and Europe has not always existed. Indeed, until the mid 1970's, the number of hours worked on either side of the Atlantic was roughly the same.

This report has been translated into seven ethic minority languages including the Mongolian, Tibetan, Uygur, Kazak, Korean, and Zhuang by the China Ethnic Languages Translation Bureau.

Indeed, my teenage son has been idolizing Lin s skills and work ethic ever since Lin starred on the Harvard team. But, as an economist observing the public s seething anger over the one percenters, or individuals with exceptionally high incomes, I also see a different, overlooked facet of the story.

I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith.

It was emphasized that China's success was due to (i) favourable tax incentives, (ii) lower capital costs, (iii) lower labour costs, (iv) flexibility in production, (v) the value of large internal markets, and (vi) a strong work ethic and strengths in science and engineering education in terms of quantity and quality.

So what should this ethical framework entail? A paragraph of the Declaration toward a Global Ethic of the Parliament of the World s Religions in Chicago in 1993 reads as follows

We do not have the basis of a proper partnership for the future, and yet, out of people s desire for a global ethic and a global society that can be done.

I started with improvisation, in a particular form of improvisation called theater games, which had one rule, which I always thought was a great rule for an ethic for a society.

Combine the power of a global ethic with the power of our ability to communicate and organize globally, with the challenges that we now face, most of which are global in their nature.

Combined with its strong tradition of consensus building, the Commonwealth seeks to promote tolerance and unity through pluralism, promotion of the democratic ethic and commitment to international treaties and conventions governing peace and development.

We live, today, in uncharted territory. We face a challenge that is unprecedented in human history creation of a powerful political ethic of solidarity self consciously grounded on the presence and acceptance of very different views.

All three were subsequently vindicated sometimes in their lifetimes, sometimes not. What they shared is a paradoxical ethic common to all intellectuals the end cause of truth justifies whatever means happens to be at your disposal.

In order to address effectively the issues of inclusiveness and participation, it is necessary to promote a global civil ethic to shape the rules that will ensure that globalization benefits all, including those who are currently marginalized.

In short, intellectuals want their audiences to think for themselves, not simply shift allegiances from one expert to another. The intellectual s ethic is both exhilarating and harsh, for it places responsibility for thinking squarely on the thinker s shoulders.

It is also a rich and original literary achievement that challenges today s consumerist ethic. By renouncing simplicity, it also repudiates today s prevailing confusion of information with literature, of facts with creativity, and best selling products with true works of art.

It was also necessary to promote and support, at the economic, political, social and cultural levels, measures aimed at developing a globalization ethic, streamlining the idea of global schemes to protect the vulnerable sectors and effectively linking democracy and development.

In Portugal, the High Commissioner of Immigration and Ethnic Minorities, a post created to promote the integration of ethic minorities into the society, has developed a health guide for immigrants and foreign citizens who live and or work in Portugal to help them protect themselves against HIV, and also ensures that minority and migrant populations have access to health care regardless of their nationality or financial or legal situation.

One of the reasons why an institution is not in itself enough is that we have got to persuade people around the world to change their behavior as well, so you need that global ethic of fairness and responsibility across the generations.

Similarly, the provision on protection and proper use of assets in the Code of Business Conduct and Ethics of Schering AG may be relevant to the possible misuse of assets for criminal or terrorist purposes (http www.schering.de scripts en 10_about ethic standard index.php)

The suffering that so many people are enduring leads to pressure for reform, and Obama has shrewdly transformed these pressures into a political force. All this shows that reflection on common ethical values, a global ethic, is needed more urgently now than ever before.

Religion provides a profound and powerful base of solidarity, and to marginalize it would be a big mistake, just as marginalizing atheistic philosophies would be a mistake. Democratic societies, in their tremendous diversity, are powered by many different engines of commitment to a common ethic.