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Word: respecter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...million articles like yours cannot spoil even an iota Britain's standing in the world in this respect. As a proud British Sikh, I say hands off our country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 10, 1979 | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

...very angry, and I am cold and numb," said Ulster Paratroop Commander Colonel Jim Burke, "but we will not overreact because we pride ourselves in being professionals in every respect." Prime Minister Thatcher also recognized that the violence could trigger an eruption of much wider sectarian strife and avoided any display of emotionalism. In a bold, compassionate gesture, she flew to Belfast, where she strolled through the city's main shopping street to hear firsthand reactions to the killings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: A Nation Mourns Its Loss | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

...rows occur if he smells smoke, so I would disappear into the garden, ostensibly to contemplate nature, but in fact to sneak a cigarette and bury the butt under a shrub." As a veteran connoisseur of art, architecture and antiquity, Hughes learned long ago to treat a monument with respect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 3, 1979 | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

...playboy, she must also give him a bachelor pad so overdone that even Hugh Hefner would find it garish. Jamie's mom (Roberta Maxwell), meanwhile, is required to go into a burlesque rage at the mere mention of her ex-husband's name. Ross shows far more respect for the kids, who are so truthfully drawn that they seem to have wandered in from another movie. Still, credible grownups are needed if Rich Kids' conflicts are to have any meaning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Poor Grownups | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

That heresy shakes the almost reverential respect accorded by the profession to Britain's late John Maynard Keynes, the century's most influential economist. The belief of Keynes's disciples that governments often could manage economic affairs as efficiently and effectively as free markets themselves has been rejected by the accumulating research of the new economists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Set the Economy Right | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

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