Word: esteemed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...counterparts is Rosalynn. When the champagne has been drained and the music has died, Jimmy and Rosalynn sit down together and add it all up. Rosalynn has diminished Prime Ministers with one cool sentence or helped, as with Japan's Takeo Fukuda, elevate them to higher esteem...
...military services, on specific topics. The agencies' main aim has been to assess Soviet strategic capabilities and, more significant, Russia's intentions. These reports were read critically by Kissinger, who sometimes penciled in the margin "flabby" or "bureaucratic bullshit." They are still held in low esteem at the White House...
...rapid self-enrichers seem to be motivated by greed. It seems more likely that they recognize "money, pur et simple," in Bagehot's phrase, as the shortest, speediest route to public recognition, self-esteem and power-or, simply, security in a threatening world...
...need to relax a little bit, all of us, and get a sense of perspective about each other. Sometimes, when something goes wrong, it's not the result of a conspiracy but merely stupidity. We ought to recall that none of us is held in very high esteem in the country right...
...least," Jon replied. The notion of no free will was too much for Jon's mathematized brain, which wanted to keep at least some self-esteem...