Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...major respect, the President's recommendations were disappointingly weak. Although he agreed with countless criminologists that handguns "play a key role" in the current rise of violent crime, Ford failed to endorse measures that many experts believe are necessary to stop that increase. He declared himself "unalterably opposed to federal registration of guns or gun owners." He did, however, make one important proposal: a ban on the manufacture, assembly or sale?though not the possession?of "Saturday night specials," the cheap, easily concealed pistols that have been flooding American cities and turning thousands of quarrels and robberies into murders...
...cautious critics, should not be expected to do much more than punish and isolate offenders from society. "Whether or not prisoners will change is not the issue," says Joe Hickey. "To the extent that people see criminal-justice system as fair, to that extent will they have more respect for the law. We would be ahead if we could even
...feel we are on the eve of entering the national government. We are not in a hurry. At this stage we believe it should take the shape of a constructive relationship in Parliament. We do not propose national elections at present. However, we ask all the democratic parties to respect the trend indicated by the vote...
...that he spoke out of guile. "I don't know how devious the President is," answers Ron Nessen, "and I'm not going to ask him." Managing Editor Rosenthal sees no skulduggery in the President's remark. Says he: "How did he know that we would respect the off-the-record part...
...face the danger that the old-fashioned nationalism (with its corollary isolationism) will become newly respectable. We are in danger of forgetting our oldest American tradition, that the nation exists for the sake of principles that can be shared. This nation first declared its independence in "a decent respect to the opinions of mankind." Our uniqueness as a nation may depend on our ability and our power to preserve this paradox. In every generation we must once again declare our independence, while finding new ways to discover and declare our community with the world...