Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...though, is Carter's continuing failure to set a strong direction on economic policy. "We're adrift," complains Wisconsin Democrat Henry Reuss, chairman of the House Banking Committee. "Carter will never win businessmen's confidence by saying that he wants to be loved. What businessmen respect, rightly, is mastery...
...attitude. In an attempt to shed his dour reputation, Nader in January showed up on TV as host of the zany NBC's Saturday Night Live. In one routine he deadpanned his way through a comic turn satirizing none other than Ralph Nader. The effort backfired in one respect: though the skit was indeed amusing, Nader portrayed himself altogether too accurately as a driven zealot. Congressmen agree that Nader does his homework, but they are repelled by his insistence that his position is the only morally right one. Says Representative David Obey, Wisconsin Democrat: "Members are just...
Schorr's statements indicate that he retains little respect for the man who resigned the presidency in disgrace. "There was a terrible immaturity in that administration called paranoia...
...what Alcoholics Anonymous does for heavy drinking. The inmates' advice lacks the moralistic admonitions of the parents, judges and probation officers ignored by the kids. It is, indeed, an implicit message of the consequences of crime, brought home by those who alone in society are capable of commanding the respect of others who may be headed in the same direction...
...Ivrea. After last year's national elections, in which the Communists increased their hold over the large city governments as well as 2,778 towns and villages, Bettazzi wrote an open letter to the secretary-general asking whether local Communist governments could be counted on to guarantee full respect for religion...