Word: respectable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...family house or a condominium unit for his or her own use for a period of at least two years shall be deemed exempt from Rent Control (and said single family house or condominium unit shall not be deemed a controlled rental unit under the Rent Control Act) with respect to any subsequent rental by the owner or his or her family, heirs or estate...
...fully accept that this parliament is the supreme body of state power. There is no other body in this country that can make major decisions on domestic and foreign policy. Our military, by the way, especially the command, is very disciplined and brought up in a spirit of respect for the bodies of power in this country. In the U.S., there are many who underestimate this factor and think that in the Soviet Union the highest military command can get its own way on major matters. This is absolutely out of the question. Your estimation of your own military would...
...matter how different those 28 potential councillors seem, they're all Democrats. Like it or not, this is a one-party town. Republicans in Massachusetts-particularly at Harvard--don't get much respect, and neither do their candidates...
...family house or a condominium unit for his or her own use for a period of at least two years shall be deemed exempt from Rent Control (and said single family house or condominium unit shall not be deemed a controlled rental unit under the Rent Control Act) with respect to any subsequent rental by the owner or his or her family, heirs or estate...
Among superpower currencies, the Soviet ruble gets no respect. Its official value is so overstated after decades of isolation from the marketplace that even Soviet citizens treat it as funny money. In the past year Soviet economists have openly acknowledged that the ruble's official rate of exchange with Western currencies was seriously out of whack. While the Soviet state bank, Gosbank, gave visiting foreigners only 0.65 rubles for every U.S. dollar, a thriving black market offered as much as 15 rubles. An internal study done for the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party reportedly estimated the ruble...