Word: honored
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...with a dozen others killed in the coup, in a mass grave on the capital's outskirts. Members of the murdered President's family watched the burial in tears. A populist who religiously consulted with village leaders before embarking on new policies, Sankara made personal probity a point of honor in a country that has had more than one corrupt leader since winning independence in 1960. He boasted that he was the world's lowest-paid chief of state, with a salary of just $450 a month...
Duarte seemed unclear what message he wanted to deliver to the U.S. At an arrival ceremony on the White House lawn, Duarte profusely thanked Reagan for the U.S. aid his country has received over the years. Then he walked over to the military honor guard and kissed the American flag. The next day, however, Duarte called on the Reagan Administration to give the peace process a fair chance by withholding military aid to the contras at least until January. The White House has said it intends to petition Congress for new aid no later than Thanksgiving...
...Nobel Prizes were initially established to honor work done during the previous twelve months. That has rarely happened in the 86 years that the Nobel Committee has made the awards, which currently include a stipend of $340,000. Indeed, recognition of even the most significant scientific discoveries can take decades. But the research that earned this year's Physics Prize was such an obvious breakthrough that the academy acted with remarkable haste. Karl Alex Muller, 60, of Switzerland and Johannes Georg Bednorz, 37, a West German, became laureates less than two years after their discovery of high-temperature superconductivity...
...Brigham Young University, where students must sign an honor code which prohibits pre-marital sex, administrators are in the process of forming a policy which will stress education and empathy, says Bruce H. Willey, director of BYU's Health Service...
...Mather House tutor is hosting a weekly study group in his living room in honor of the bicentennial of the Constitution...