Word: respectable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...London, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Britain's foreign minister, called Britain's action "a measured action in respect of established misbehavior" and termed the Soviet response unjustified. Howe said Britain has "incontrovertible evidence" of wrongdoing by the expelled Soviets...
...President ticked off a long series of actions that Moscow must take ("tear down the Iron Curtain . . . achieve a lasting political pluralism and respect for human rights" inside the Soviet Union) to earn U.S. trust. By contrast, he offered little in the way of U.S. action. He revived and expanded the "open skies" proposal advanced 34 years ago by Dwight Eisenhower. Under it, each side would let the other's unarmed reconnaissance planes, and now satellites, fly over its territory...
...small operation into the nation's 18th largest brokerage. His politics, like his business management, depends on a salesman's enthusiasm and a willingness to listen. "I've never felt I had all the brains or all the answers," says Caperton. "If you expect more from people and respect what they have to say, it improves performance tremendously...
...years women argued for opportunity. Corporate Harvard, like other elite institutions, was run by white men; how could it pretend to care about diversity and respect different voices if it was run by only one group...
...women who command the respect of men don't raise relevant issues, no one with a similar chance for success will. If change is to be enacted within the system, women leaders, sensitized to certain issues, must take up the causes, not just for themselves but for reforms that can improve the workplace...