Word: respectable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This year was different, though, in one respect--the emergence of the student vote. College students have been eligible to vote in the past three Cambridge elections, a privilege only a few have ever exercised. But students registering for classes this fall found they could also register to vote in Cambridge--even if they hadn't paid their term bills. Many went ahead and registered. After all, "students will sign anything. They just won't take the time to vote," as conservative councilor Walter Sullivan once pointed...
...aftermath of the 1973 oil embargo, a report of the Senate multinationals subcommittee suggested the "over-riding lesson" was that "in a democracy, important questions of policy with respect to a vital commodity like oil, the lifeblood of an industrial society, cannot be left to private companies acting in accord with private interests and a closed circle of government officials." Right now information is the scarcest and most vital commodity in the oil industry. The only way the government can hope to secure a dependable supply of this commodity is to explore its own lands and to enter the market...
...should be made to protect American lives with peaceful means. But if all diplomatic efforts fail and if American lives are in immediate danger, the Carter Administration should not rule out the use of a tactical force specifically ordered to save these lives. Although a state is obliged to respect the territorial rights of another, it has a greater duty to defend the lives of its representatives abroad...
...damaged those who refuse to properly appreciate modern art. Those who condemn abstraction do so, because they require an "already known order, familiar and reassuring." Amazingly, Schapiro calls on a neurologist to verify this "handicap": "The sense of order in the patient is an expression of his impoverishment with respect to an essentially human trait: the capacity for adequate shifting of attitude...