Word: respectable
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Attorney and Democratic party activist Lawrence DiCara '71 expressed respect for the nominee, although he said, "I know Frank, and we disagree on all the important issues." DiCara, who has known him for ten years, said, "every U.S. attorney brings a personality to the office," but he said he doubted McNamara's views would alienate either liberal colleagues or former rivals for the office...
...Tanner family of NBC's new sitcom ALF has an unusual pet -- an E.T.-like visitor from outer space -- but in most other respects the Tanners are the very picture of TV normality. When Dad comes home from work and gets fawned over by his teenage daughter, he instantly guesses, as TV fathers have done for decades, that she wants to borrow the car. And as they have also done for decades, he puts his foot down: no driving on a school night. "If we don't respect the rules we make, we're never going to respect each other...
...101st Avenue, a few blocks down from the Bergen Hunt and Fish Club, Connie, a school crossing guard, has been escorting children across the same street for ten years. "People here look up to him," she says of Gotti. "As soon as you mention his name, he gets respect. As far as I'm concerned, they're crucifying him." A young mother in a powder blue jumpsuit, who is picking up her small daughter, says of Gotti, "I think he's good for 101st Avenue. There's no riffraff around here. If it weren't for him, this neighborhood would...
...nine-day, four-city U.S. tour, Aquino garnered not just the affection of the Americans she had met but their respect. The woman who a year ago had been widely regarded as an untutored political amateur, famous only as the widow of the assassinated opposition leader Benigno (Ninoy) Aquino Jr., had no trouble persuading official Washington that a strategic U.S. ally in the Pacific is in capable hands. "She knows how to deal with the problems of the Philippines," said a senior U.S. official. "She's really done a hell...
Aquino went a long way toward proving her credibility during her meetings with Reagan. At their private session in the Oval Office and a working lunch afterward, Aquino assured Reagan that her government would respect the existing agreement regarding the two major U.S. military bases in the Philippines, Subic Bay Naval Station and Clark Air Base. For months Aquino has been under intense pressure from many supporters to renounce the American military presence. The current pact expires in 1991 but is scheduled for review by both signatories in 1988. Said Reagan: "That gives us and the people of the Philippines...