Word: respectable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...least one respect, the Reaganites are correct: the market distortions induced by rent control hurt almost everyone--especially the disadvantaged that liberals ought to be protecting...
Barrett's support could help defeat the proposition because "he's popular [and] people have a lot of respect for him," said Vicki Lewis, a spokesperson for the Committee to Defeat Proposition...
...really don't want to show them any respect," says Cash as one platoon trudges by. "Why should we? They are criminals. Most dropped out of the tenth grade. They come to us and then go back to their old environment. The inmate will be in that environment longer than he will be with us. This program is definitely worth having unless I see a better way. It is better than warehousing them and teaching them to be better criminals...
...influences. In airy harmonies that resound with the church music of Minas Gerais, the state in east-central Brazil where he grew up, Nascimento writes uplifting sound poems full of yearning and determination. His music is infused with a near mystical celebration of life and love, coupled with a respect for nature that borders on animism. Ironically, Nascimento's records, as well as those of many of his popular colleagues, have been largely displaced on the radio playlists in their own country by the likes of Madonna, local crooners or the standard rock 'n' roll with Portuguese lyrics...
...rabbis like Jerusalem's Pesach Schindler, such efforts are historically interesting but spiritually superfluous. A member of Judaism's Conservative branch, which shuns Orthodox literalism regarding the Temple, Schindler contends that "religion evolves. We have respect for the past, but it has no operational significance. With the establishment of the state of Israel, we have all our spiritual centers within us. That is where the Temples should be built...