Word: reproaches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Proponents of fundamentalist schools have forgotten one of the basic teachings of the Bible, which is that the Christian is to respect and obey the government. In taking an arrogant, self-righteous position, the supporters of Christian schools not only reproach the Bible, but insult those who work in the public schools. The public system does work, but it works better when we stay to build rather than when we desert to experiment...
WHEN ISRAEL was created in 1948, its founding fathers were concerned that their new country would eventually become a nation state like all others. To them, Israel had to remain on a moral pedestal, almost above reproach, in a constant search for perfection. It was an impossible dream, but one that has lasted until today. Now though, Israel with its political scandals, militarism and petty bickering, is showing signs of being no more of an ideal nation than any other democracy. Realistically, such an evolution was to be expected...
...about the time that news of the White House deliberations appeared in the American press, the Japanese government warned its chip manufacturers to make sure that their marketing practices in the U.S. were beyond reproach. Says Atsuyoshi Ouchi, senior executive vice president of Nippon Electric: "We were told that we had to be particularly careful about the possibility of being slapped with charges of dumping...
Hence, each side must meet the other halfway, casting aside any thought of recrimination. It is easy for the U.S. to resent its Western European allies for their uncertainties, to reproach them for not sharing its own view of the future of the Western world, to ask them to harmonize their essential interests with its trade policy. That is always easy, sometimes justified, but in any case insufficient. Such complaints seem all the more futile in that they place Western European countries in a position to ask the U.S. to clarify its own standpoint...
Garrison Keillor is the somewhat moonstruck and lately much celebrated rustic whimsyfier whose monologues from Lake Woebegon, Minn., embellish Public Radio's Saturday evening country-music broadcasts. The first response of an uninitiated listener is likely to be, "That fellow is being funny," and the second, uttered with reproach, "No, that fellow is being serious...