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  • Morale is gone, and the only laughter I hear is the ironic or bitter.

    The Pursuit of Happiness. Ulysses 2009

  • Morale is gone, and the only laughter I hear is the ironic or bitter.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Ulysses 2009

  • Morale is already low in the teaching profession – that bill would have effectively run off every good teacher there is in the current system.

    Crist brushes off top adviser's resignation 2010

  • Of all those heroes (of which you must be getting sickly rich off of), I think Captain Morale Superiority is one of the coolest.

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Couple new heroes 2007

  • Morale is declining and casualties continue to increase.

    Balkinization 2003

  • Morale is declining and casualties continue to increase.

    Balkinization 2003

  • As Johnson showed in his 2004 book, The Sorrows of Empire, this is a parallel world that has its own airline, the Air Mobility Command, connecting one base to another, and an elaborate system, known as Morale, Welfare, and Recreation (MWR), dedicated to ensuring that America's imperial servants feel they have never left home.

    Bush's Amazing Achievement Freedland, Jonathan 2007

  • The army has sent instructions to editors telling them to "refrain from publishing any items -- stories, news, announcements, complaints, advertisements, pictures -- pertaining to the Armed Forces or to commanders of the armed forces without first referring to the Morale Affairs Department and the Department of Military Intelligence and Information Gathering."

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • In a game it's going to come under "Morale" and alter the calculation for fighting efficiency.

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • For cross-national evidence from forty countries that religiosity boosts “tax morale,” that is, a moral commitment that tax cheating is wrong, see Benno Torgler, “The Importance of Faith: Tax Morale and Religiosity,” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 61, no.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

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