Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With respect to education, the study reports that 79% of the subscribers attended college, nearly one-third of them going on to postgraduate work. Not counting retired people and students, the heads of family (and 73% of those quizzed were in this category) all work, an impressive 67% holding managerial or professional positions. Mr. Subscriber shows his concern for his brood by his investments: 94% have life insurance (average face value: $43,613), 67% own stocks and bonds. The average value of the TIME subscribing family's liquid assets is $37,441, which adds up to a spending potential...
...Balaguer's inauguration. Bunker's patience won him the esteem of all Dominican factions save the pro-Communist Castroites, who called him El Pato Macho del Mangoneo (The Top Banana of Machinations). Said Rebel Colonel Francisco Caamaño Deño: "I have the respect for that man that I have for my own father." Caamaño's archrival, General Antonio Imbert Barreras, agreed...
...brush-fire war, and with the hesitant assistance of an aide de camp (Alain Delon) who falls in love with a rebel belle (Claudia Cardinale), he conducts a brilliant but brutal campaign in the interior. In the end he wins a general's stars but loses his self-respect...
Despite clever barbs and lucent epigrams ("Respect is the only successful aphrodisiac"), Any God Will Do is not as acidly funny as it keeps promising to be. In the past, Condon cultists have been treated to comic narrative leaps performed with the agility of a Macedonian goat, and to sly surrealistic glimpses into the lives of Oedipal wrecks and decent drudges who turn up naked at the Last Judgment. But in this book much of the elan is gone; it sometimes appears as if Condon is padding to keep from plotting. Besides, he seems to hold his nose...
...difficult to get even a "feel" of the basis on which most of these decisions are made. And, of course, there is no data on the effectiveness of such decisions, whether effectiveness is judged by the rate of repeated crime, the deterrent impact of the criminal law, or the respect and confidence of the public for the criminal process...