Word: respectable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kind of behavior with anything like the degree of severity that it deserves and that would be necessary to deter it. If the penalty were losing one's Harvard degree, one can be sure there would be very few if any martyrs willing to pay such a price, and respect for free speech here would be virtually universal. As it is, violations are commonplace because the penalties imposed are hardly worth mentioning. Time will tell; but does anyone really believe that the punishment just imposed--probation until October 15--will seriously intimidate even the offenders themselves (how much trouble...
...Norlina, N.C., couple declared bankruptcy in April 1986. Then, facing foreclosure on the 228-acre farm that she and Ernie had worked for 40 years, Margie wrote an eloquent letter to a court-appointed trustee, expressing the hope that she and her husband might somehow retain their self-respect as they went through the agonizing process of giving up their home and land. TIME reprinted that letter (NATION, Sept. 8), prompting an outpouring of mail from across the U.S. and half a dozen foreign countries. / Many of those letters offered not only sympathy but also financial assistance (A LETTER FROM...
...keep its tariffs on Japanese electronic goods until Tokyo abandons all unfair trade practices. The Senate leader argued the same point in a letter to Reagan that warned against lifting sanctions until Tokyo demonstrates "sustained compliance" with trade agreements. Yet Nakasone's trip to Capitol Hill won him some respect. Said Senator Max Baucus, a Democrat from Montana and a trade hawk: "Now I understand why the Japanese do so well. They just hang in there. It was an impressive performance...
...wide variety of ideas, including unpopular and controversial ones. An uninhibited exchange of ideas--even ideas we find offensive--is essential to the pursuit of truth and knowledge. To this end, the university justifiably asks its members to show at least some minimal level of tolerance, self-restraint, and respect for the rights of others...
...scrutiny which we gave to this affair," said Scowcroft. "We all make mistakes. The thing that is troublesome is whether or not the national tolerance for error is being so reduced by the unrelenting pursuit such as we ((the Tower board)) undertook, and such as the media undertook, that respect of the people for Government itself suffers unjustly. Disdain for Government leads the best people to shun service in that Government; less talented people are even more prone to provide grist for investigative reporting, which further tarnishes the image of Government...