Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stromberg, a native of Salt Lake City, used Japanese respect for Americans to his advantage. "The Japanese treated me as if I was 30 years old," he says. "I could walk into a bank and ask to talk to somebody, and they'd usher me right into the branch manager's office...
Stromberg also used his Harvard ties. "The Japanese respect Harvard because of Edwin O. Reischauer. They'd ask me if I'd ever met him, ever talked to him, and I'd say yes, I have met him, and then they...
...intense pressure and strong feelings of every kind. He has shown a remarkable ability to reconcile the legitimate concerns of minority persons with the requirements and standards of the University. Few people could have done as well, and even fewer could emerge with such widespread good feeling and respect...
...Good Doctor." As the members of this inner circle have learned the hard way, Kissinger's respect does not protect them from fairly frequent torrents of abuse for real or imagined shortcomings. Seasoned officials are bawled out like village idiots, and there are no apologies later when it turns out that the fault was not theirs-and maybe was even Kissinger's. It is the price the aides pay, willingly enough, for being "present at the creation" with...
...white-walled old quarter of the capital, Tibetans still rise at dawn to sweep and water the dirt streets, harnessing donkeys while children troop to Chinese-run schools. Old ladies stick out their tongues at foreigners in the traditional greeting of respect. Elsewhere, the new China is being built. Traditional Tibet has become a dying wonder of the world...