Word: honored
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...spirit" it had produced. But he movingly proclaimed: "The American people are healed, are working together. The American people are moving again, and moving in the right direction." He cited the achievement of "peace with freedom" as one of his major accomplishments. He concluded: "It would be the highest honor for me to have your support on November 2 and for you to say, 'Jerry Ford, you've done a good job. Keep on doing...
...chose to resist the fighting, Kovic can never be graced with amnesty. His exile is permanent; it is the physical isolation of his wheelchair. America's image was sullied in Vietnam; Kovic's ruined body is the crying proof of this. He had believed that there was honor in serving one's country, and there was. But the war taught him it was in vain. He recalls in the third person...
Independent Candidate Eugene McCarthy-who says that if Common Cause and the New York Times had been around in 1776, "Thomas Jefferson would have had to change the Declaration of Independence to read, 'We pledge our lives, our sacred honor, and up to $1,000' "-finds the current state of campaign humor "dreadful." Columnist Robert Yoakum polled nearly three dozen White House correspondents for their opinion of Administration humor. Not one rated the Ford funny bone favorably, and Washington Post Reporter Lou Cannon placed it "slightly ahead of the Federal Register and somewhat behind the Congressional Record...
...What the Nobel committee clearly intended to honor was not Friedman's politics but his contributions to practical economic theory. "It is very rare," said Friedman's citation, "for an economist to wield such influence, directly and indirectly, not only on the direction of scientific research but also on actual policies." One of Friedman's most influential achievements goes back to the 1950s, when he refuted a once widely accepted element of Keynesian economics: the idea that rich people save a greater proportion of their incomes than do the poor. Among other implications, this meant that developing...
...Love Mississippi," Bradford sings of the places that head the roll of racial hatred--Watts and South Boston. Not too many people from Southie could have been there, in the eight and nine dollar seats, to defend their honor. But most of those who did make it to the Charles Playhouse seemed to have no doubts that they'd gotten their money's worth. On the way out, many of them echoed the words of the black man who sat behind me during the performance: "Beautiful," he kept saying. "Beautiful...