Word: respectable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Khalq (People's) Party, does not have broad backing; some diplomats in Kabul believe his supporters in the military and among Afghanistan's small educated class number only 2,500 people. Yet the regime shows no sign of bending its rigid Marxist principles. While Taraki professes "full respect for holy Islam," his Prime Minister, Hafizullah Amin, angrily blames the bloodletting on the meddling of "imperialist lackeys from Iran and Pakistan...
Roldós avoided ruffling Ecuador's armed forces, proclaiming that he held them in "great respect." But he also decried the "vile assassination" of Abnón Calderón Muñoz, leader of the gadfly Radical Front Party, who was shot last fall in Roldós' home town of Quayaquil. Calderón's family has brought suit charging that ex-Interior Minister Bolivar Jarrin Cahueñas was involved in the killing...
Carlson still has so deep a respect for a dollar that he continues to pump his own gas at a self-service station. But he generously donated $1 million to the drive, of which he is codirector, to raise $20 million for the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. He is active in other charities and has finally delegated enough authority to set aside time for regular sessions of swimming and tennis. But the companies remain his passion. A pillow on Carlson's gold-striped sofa reads: "I love this business. Sit down...
...related both to the preceding and the following steps. And here I would like to return to a point which Prof. Hoffmann made in his remarks, and which I think is of fundamental importance, in the sense that it reflects both on the moral efficaciousness of our stance with respect to our own standing as an educational institution, and with our ability to affect, within the restraints of powerlessness, or relative powerlessless, the corporations...
...that are God's" (Matthew 22: 21), Shils sardonically assigned the role of Caesar to the Federal Government, while arguing that universities have a quasi-religious mission in so far as they pursue truths about nature and man. It would be proper, said Shils, for the two spheres to respect the differences between them. Instead, since World War II, according to Shils, the Government has ignored the universities' traditional function of searching for truth. It has pushed them into federal programs to train high-level experts, create defense technology and promote national economic growth. Eventually, Caesar also came to view...