Word: disrespected
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...profession because I love the people and the women that I work with. If I felt that my informality equaled disrespect... then I would change, but it doesn't. My satisfaction is my relationship with my players. If I'm supposed to be more distant, then I would leave the profession...
Beside showing disrespect for voting majorities in two states, McCaffrey's take-prisoners approach to the marijuana initiatives--which he called a "tremendous tragedy" in Rolling Stone--reflects a hypocritical moralism of Reaganesque proportions. Similar to the First Lady of the '80s, who repeated her "Just Say No" mantra like a mentally disturbed parrot, McCaffrey has been pushing no-tolerance policy on drug use. The legitimation? As McCaffrey made clear in his speech, it is the "protection" of our nation's youth which underlies national drug policy, not any political weakness of our pot-smoking (but non-inhaling) President. McCaffrey...
...killing of a black child by a white driver was not an isolated incident in the lives of the black people in Brooklyn or anywhere else in America. Rather, it appeared to blacks as another example--based upon both history and direct experience--of the utter disdain and disrespect with which black lives are regarded in this country. Crown Heights did not happen over night. The black rage in response to the death of a child and the Jewish fear in response to the murder of a man were many years in the making. That fact does...
...advice to young people involved in political action is to combine the right amount of respect for past movements and the right amount of disrespect for their elders," Davis said. "In these complex times it seems necessary to break with tradition in order to encourage change...
...meant no disrespect," I said. "That particular region has produced many noted poets. I happen to be from Missouri myself, just one state away. So was T.S. Eliot, even though he did eventually move to England and start talking funny...