Word: respectable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...response, Davis says he discussed a friendly merger with Munro and Time president N.J. Nicholas several times from 1986 through 1988, but was rebuffed on each occasion. As a result, Davis told TIME senior correspondent Frederick Ungeheuer, "I said we would not do anything hostile and would respect Time's decision to remain independent." But Time then "put itself up for sale," Davis argued, by agreeing to merge with Warner. He said the deal would end Time's independence because the merger would give Warner shareholders 60% of the stock of the combined company...
...Polish election, the possibility of Soviet intervention seems extremely remote. Eight years ago, in the heyday of Solidarity's first incarnation, Leonid Brezhnev forced Jaruzelski to break the union. But Gorbachev has long since laid the interventionist Brezhnev Doctrine to rest, repeatedly promising the East * European regimes "mutual respect" and "non-interference in each other's internal affairs." Moreover, Gorbachev considers the reform-minded Jaruzelski an important ally in promoting what he calls "new thinking" throughout the Soviet bloc. Finally, the Soviet leader seems to regard the economic and political experiments in Poland and Hungary as important laboratory tests...
...violent youngsters? Many Americans are calling for stronger laws and punishments. They argue that juveniles should be prosecuted as adults and that prison sentences should be longer. "These kids are getting away with murder," declares Robert Contreras, a police detective in Los Angeles. "They are not afraid, have no respect for anything and joke that in jail they'll at least get three square meals a day." Syracuse's Goldstein surveyed 250 juvenile delinquents for their solutions to violence and found that they too favored harsher sentences. Many thought that jail was too "cushy...
...action taken by the Board of Trustees expresses appropriate respect and gratitude for Dr. Frazier's many years of service," said Tosteson...
...Derek earns more respect than warmth and affection," O'Brien says. "I've never quite worked around anyone who was as free of gossip. Personalities were never something that fascinated him, as they almost always are in a university...