Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remarkable 93rd Congress, which adjourns this week. It will be remembered chiefly not for landmark legislation but for dealing with the greatest constitutional crisis in U.S. history and for taking steps to restore the Legislative Branch as more nearly coequal to the Executive in power and public respect. Such an outcome seemed wildly improbable when the 93rd took office on Jan. 3, 1973, for then even some of its members questioned whether the seemingly docile body could ever rouse itself and shake off domination by the increasingly powerful White House. But the excesses and crimes of the Nixon Administration prodded...
...time, some said the only thing the act did was aid the large American gun manufacturers because it has a clause that restricts the importation of cheap handguns. Even in this respect the act failed, because by 1972 imports were again up to pre-1968 levels...
...status as an educational institution as an excuse for a wage-squeezing few other employers of 6000 workers would dare voice. All of Harvard's trappings of prestige and learning make very little difference to its workers, and cannot be a substitute for wages or, just as important, respect. When workers know their employers view them as an adjunct and not what they really are--a part of the University just as essential as professors or students--it makes it very difficult to work here happily...
Harvard should stop treating its workers like second-class citizens, unworthy even of the minimal respect workers get in industry or business. Its status as a university does not change its status as a major employer and corporation. Sooner or later the University will have to stop using its academic functions as a convenient shield against the intrusions of real-world responsibilities, and give its employees the pay and respect they deserve...
LIPPMANN "had little direct impact on the general public," Richard H. Rovere, The New Yorker's political analyst, wrote, but he was "read with immense respect by presidents and other policymaking officials and much of what he thought and said found its way into the democratic consensus." That newspapers are written for the general public, not presidents and other policymaking officials, didn't bother Rovere, any more than his picture of a "democratic consensus" arrived at by presidents and other policymaking officials, not the general public, seems to. James Reston, The New York Time ex-vice-president who's sometimes...