Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...until President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing named him Premier in August 1976. The roly-poly professor, who describes himself as a "square man in a round body," enjoys the fact that he is not a professional politician. His blunt, straight-talking manner has won him the respect of the public, though his austere economics have drawn criticism from both the left and from Gaullists on the right. Barre's policies, however, have lately begun to bear fruit: unemployment has declined for five consecutive months, the annual inflation rate has averaged only 7% over the past...
...East Boston, with all its packed-in toughness, violence is a way of life. Joe explains that the East Boston social hierarchy is determined by "earning a certain level of respect" from you peers...
...There are a lot of people waiting to take advantage of you. So when someone shoots you down, you can either take it like a wimp or learn to fight back and take care of yourself and earn your respect that way," he says...
Twenty states* have moved to stop nose thumbing at court orders by passing the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act, which generally promises respect for custody terms worked out in other states. That still leaves 30 states as potential havens for child snatchers, however, and the act does not provide a mechanism to track abductions across state lines. An obvious answer is federal standards, but lawmakers are reluctant to thrust Washington into family spats. Says U.S. Representative John Conyers of Michigan, whose House Judiciary subcommittee has buried several federal bills: "Whenever there is onerous conduct, everybody says there ought...
...place where video seems to be getting the most respect and where a stimulating environment for video work seems to be taking hold most strongly is at M I T, which has five major centers of video activity: the film section of the humanities department, the political sciences department, the Center for Advanced Video, the libraries, and the Center for Advanced Engineering Studies (CAES). CAES has taken the lead in encouraging M I T video: it's two-inch broadcast equipment, used for the continuing education of engineers, attracted two major video grants. Following the grants, a good deal...