Word: respectable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...friends staffing the phone lines, some staffers argue that hotline staff should remain completely anonymous so that the caller is comfortable. Others point out that if you know that people you like and respect are hotline staffers, you may have more confidence in the group and be more likely to call if the need arises. Though the latter argument raises a good point, it seems more likely that students would avoid calling those they know. After all, if you are calling an anonymous hotline, you are probably looking for just that--anonymity. Anything that undermines that cannot be good...
...completely destroyed for everyone in Bette and Boo's extended family: Thanksgiving is ruined in a mess of spilled gravy and arguments, nobody can remember why anyone celebrates Christmas, birthdays always end in somebody dying, horny priests make religion unreliable and children don't, in the end, ever respect their parents (and for good cause...
...didn't decide to be producers. That sort of happened of itself. When we started writing, we didn't ever consider production the end goal. There was more of a desire to work with each other since we respect one another's writing abilities...
...Corazon Aquino and former Irish President Mary R. Robinson--were thus summed up in a single, beautiful sentence. One can hardly argue with the fact that they are all liberal women, and a strong case can made for the charge of mediocrity. All are deserving of our admiration and respect, but it would be difficult to argue that Brundtland has made an indelible mark on the world...
...surely had a greater historical impact than the three cited selections combined. Of course, today's students, immune to right-wing propaganda, no longer think winning the Cold War was all that important. Nor was rescuing Britain's ailing socialist economy a sufficiently compassionate enterprise to earn Maggie their respect. Still, in the spirit of pluralism, maybe Harvard should invite that heartless statesperson to say her piece...