Word: respectable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kept "in proper perspective." Although that message seemed to be aimed at Senate hawks, Vance also spoke more softly to the Soviets than his President had. In an address to the U.N., he merely observed that "the East-West relationship can deteriorate dangerously whenever one side fails to respect the security interests of the other...
...exposed population is a statistical certainy, it is impossible to identify which cancers are due to radiation and not to other causes. For this reason, the nuclear industry can disingenously challenge critics to point to a single radiation fatality. Gofman compares the nuclear and tobacco industries in this respect. Cigarettes may be linked to 90 per cent of lung cancers, but the individual smoker can't prove his own cancer isn't traceable to something else. Of course, unlike the average Harrisburg resident, the smoker chooses to pay his money and take his chances...
...each occupier a six-hour training session before the action to inform him or her of all possible means of intimidation, crowd dispersal and legal action that may be used against us. The police are not our enemies. Nuclear power threatens everyone, and we oppose it out of a respect and concern for all human beings and for our planet as a whole...
...with the imminent destruction of the delicate ecological balance of the coastline, the noise of the never-ending plant construction, the fouled drinking water due to the plant, and the frustration of having their elected representatives ignore their repeated calls to stop the nuke and to respect their sovereignty rights...
...calling on strife-torn Boston to forsake racial violence. He does it with simple humility--"the Pope is your friend," he says to the largest cheers of the day. But most of all he wins Boston Common with his larger-than-Catholic personality. People don't just honor or respect him, they fall in love, in part because that is what he wants...