Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...baby boy" had been alive after Edelin removed it from kill it? Prosecution and defense witnesses alike had testified that Edelin's last action with respect to the fetus was to hand it to the scrub nurse. Flanagan puzzled over the issues the reporters raised, asking for suggestions from them, and offering analogies. "If you hit me in the none," he said, "and I die, isn't it still your fault?" He was appealing to common sense, and to emotion as he had throughout his summation...
Vecsey deeply wants the Sizemore to have a better life, for Dan Sizemore to respect his work. But does he want them to drive a Volvo too? He projects his own cultural alienation onto his subjects. Just as their outsider friends do, as though there's no viable culture in Appalachia. His style suffers for the same reason--the well written and thorough approach to the Sizemores only fails when Vecsey goes into the house and transcribers domestic babbling, the "universals" of home life. Or when he refers to people we already know as the "sensitive...
Although aligned ideologically with the Conservative Party's right wing, she has won respect-and perhaps some support-from the left and center as well. The energy apparent in her spirited, sure-footed performances in the House has injected new life into a flagging party. After Heath's lackluster performance for most of last year, this vigor alone accounts for much of Mrs. Thatcher's appeal. "I just make lists of things to do and get a lot of pleasure in ticking them off," she once explained. And she has a long, long list...
...Will all of you please sit down and be quiet," orders the Speaker of the Knesset, a short, round-faced man with a halo of gray, bushy hair adoring an otherwise bald head. "Have a little respect...
Stockwell says that part of the problem with coordination between business and government is that the council doesn't give what he calls "too many pounds of respect for those who shape the town's economy and commerce," a point to which insurance executive Jack Dyer readily agrees. "Politicians here tell you that you ought to be more involved," says Dyer, "and then when you get more involved they tell you not to interfere--I'm not convinced what goes on [in City Council] Monday night is the answer...