Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...GISCARD D'ESTAING, 48, Finance Minister off and on for nine years, has directed France's fortunes with a finesse that, despite the current troubles, has not only endeared him to the patronat-the French business establishment-but at the same time won him the respect of the man in the bistro. An urbane and brilliant economist, he is the only presidential contender who currently holds national office. That helps Giscard by giving him regular public exposure, but it also thrusts him into the firing line on problems such as unemployment (only 1.9% last year but increasing...
...shocking that our country is shattered by factionalism when Harvard students cannot even maintain minimal respect and tolerance for each other? Kathryn Donovan...
...with in subtly differing ways. When he meets Israeli leaders, for instance, Kissinger calls Golda Meir "Madame Prime Minister," while Dayan and Allon are always "Moshe" and "Yigal." Foreign Minister Abba Eban, by contrast, is simply "Eban." Explains one participant in their talks: "For Mrs. Meir he has high respect, with Dayan good rapport, with Allon comradeship. With Eban there is not much more than a colleague-to-colleague relationship, since Eban is the silent man on the team who does not have much to say." Although Sadat addresses his "dear friend" as "Henry," Kissinger calls the Egyptian leader...
...frontier. The rugged spirit he absorbed from his family and the land prepared him to cultivate the unfilled fields of electronic journalism. As co-anchor man of NBC's Huntley-Brinkley Report for 14 years, he became one of the country's most recognizable celebrities while earning respect for his skill as a newsman. When he left NBC in 1970, he returned to Montana, and it was there that he died last week of lung cancer...
...deserve better than what is being served to us on the front page. More tragic, however, is that you are losing, I believe, the credibility and respect that you gained from serious journalism over the last ten years. Samuel Johnson observed that tradition is fragile, like a meteor which, once fallen, cannot be rekindled. In publishing what appears to be a series of personal vendettas aimed a the tarnishing of reputations through unproven accusations and half-stated implications, you have demonstrated its fragility by debasing a tradition some of us had relied on for truth. whether...