Word: respectable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Atlantic City was ruled by a succession of political machines, and while nothing quite as feudal remains today, political leaders still seem to exhibit the high-handed habits of that era. Only eight years ago, the city commissioners passed a resolution ordering all municipal employees to show them "respect and obedience...
Atlantic City always dreamed of attracting an upscale clientele, and casinos / now respect this myth with frescoes and wax figures of slim-waisted maidens under dainty parasols, promenading on the Boardwalk. But historians insist that even in its glory days, Atlantic City was simply a Victorian Disneyland. A 1909 edition of a highbrow Baedeker tourist guide carried this assessment: "Atlantic City is an eighth wonder of the world. It is overwhelming in its crudeness -- barbaric, hideous and magnificent. There is something colossal about its vulgarity...
...think they're looking at this one with a bit of respect," city spokesperson Pat Dowling said in Myrtle Beach, S.C., as radio and TV advisories warned: "Remember the people of Puerto Rico...
...have great respect for the people who are leaving, but I ran in the last race--unlike a lot of other candidates who are billing themselves as successors or whatever, says CCA-candidate Jonathan S. Myers, who came within 200 votes of winning a council seat in the last race. "I didn't bill myself as replications of any of those people then, nor am I doing that...
...Sanjay G. Kallapur, accounting is the Rodney Danger-field of the business world--it gets no respect...