Word: respectable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Deans] have come from government and they have seen how much respect people in government have for PMIs," Gibson said. "I think that experi- ence was probably very important in thisdecision...
...healthy 37-year-old male who probably has as much lust for women as Bill Clinton does. But I have enough respect for the opposite sex and enough common sense to keep my hands to myself. If I or any other ordinary man were accused of the charges leveled against the President, I would be in handcuffs faster than you can say "Kathleen Willey." Yet Clinton is free to do as he pleases and remains immensely popular despite the scandals. MARK STUART ELLISON New York City...
...that he would be bewildered by the strangeness of everything, as people blind from birth are said to be when shocked by the "gift" of sight. But he certainly would be appalled by contemporary Americans' vulgarity and sentimentality, particularly the way we celebrate nonentities. Also by our lack of respect for officeholders and teachers, lack of concern for unborn children, excessive wealth and deteriorating standards of physical fitness...
...worker or manager who reports to duty at the shop every morning inflamed by the desire to make a better widget and sell more of it is one thing; quite another if he or she goes home listlessly unconcerned with human life and human attachments having to do with respect for the elderly, a love for one's family, the capacity to take joy from Christian perspectives. Papal prose is turgid, but here the Pope did say in almost as many words that socialism was an extravagant historical failure...
...Crimson are approaching the game with a confidence tempered with respect. The confidence comes from its recent four-game win streak, its terrific senior class, and the excellent play of sophomore goalie Keith Cynar, who has gotten hot just in time for his biggest test of the year...