Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from poverty and crime in the cities to paltry health care to low education standards. Five months into his presidency, Bush has done virtually nothing substantial to attack the drug crisis. Although he spoke consistently throughout the fall campaign about waging a "war on drugs," his leadership in this respect has been inconsistent and incomprehensible...
...comparatively little screen time, has come to act, not to cut comic riffs, and he does so with forceful, ultimately compelling, simplicity. Like everyone else involved in this movie, he is taking a chance on an odd, imperfect but valuable enterprise. He and the movie deserve attention, respect and finally gratitude. Especially at the start of sequel summer...
...wonderfully talented, imaginative person who I think will do just terrific things," Horner said. "I have so much respect for everything she could contribute...
...Layzer said in an earlier interview, "It is very important that the new president be a person of high scholarly reputation. The president will be able to accomplish her objectives more effectively if she commands respect...
...country at any time, such a confrontation between power and protest would be extraordinary. In China, a nation whose tradition is suffused with respect for authority, last week's outpouring of discontent was nothing short of revolutionary. No major power in the postwar period has ever been so rudely shaken -- rocked, in fact, to its foundation -- by the dissent of its populace. Still, on the faces of the hunger strikers in Tiananmen Square and of their millions of supporters around the country, the message was clear: China had crossed a threshold into a new era, where the future was entirely...