Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...influence national actions on the international stage, particularly in Africa, where the situation may become critical. The perceived closeness between Young and Carter is real, having both a political base (Young delivered invaluable black support to Carter) and a personal one (the fellow Georgians' knowledge of and respect for each other...
...been with respect to airlines in general that Adams has been most outspoken against the Nixon and Ford Administrations' aborted proposal for what Adams has dubbed "the myth of deregulation." Adams calls instead for turning "our thoughts to the realities of regulation and the changes that are needed." Complete deregulation, he insists, would lead to cutthroat price competition and protect neither the airlines nor the passengers. Says Adams: "You don't need to burn the house down to roast...
...only 55 member nations in 1946; now there are 146, and the job has not grown any easier. Even so, Austrian-born Kurt Waldheim, who was elected Secretary-General in 1971, wanted a second five-year term, and last week he got it. Unflappable Waldheim, 57, has earned respect from big and small powers for his quietly energetic diplomacy. He received a 14-to-0 endorsement on the second ballot in the Security Council, and was re-elected by acclamation in the General Assembly. How does Waldheim view his job? As one of moral suasion, he says. "Like the Pope...
...BUSINESSMEN'S ATTITUDE TO CARTER: I think [their] concerns are pretty well being dispelled by the way that he does things. Businessmen generally appreciate and respect performance. The business community won't agree with him about everything, and they won't get what they always think they might deserve, but they'll always know how he stands; he'll explain that to them very directly. You know, his action about wage and price controls [flatly rejecting the idea of imposing them] will do more to start restoring confidence than anything else, because it removes...
...hillside rocks, and Juan Diego took them to the bishop in his scrape. When he opened his cloak, it bore a miraculous painting of the Virgin in unmistakably Indian form, with a brown face and black hair. As Graham Greene once wrote, "The legend gave the Indian self-respect; it gave him a hold over his conquerors...