Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...platforms. This tells me that the people on the council are focused not on getting things done, but on who gets them done, who gets the title and recognition and who can boast to employers of their experience in student government at Harvard. Only after the council gains my respect will I show interest in its activities by participating in its elections. --Joseph Pattaphongse...
...Duties Toward the Body in Respect of Sexual Impulse," a portion of his Lectures on Ethics, Immanuel Kant made a powerful argument against sexual relations out-of-wedlock. The argument is all the more hard-hitting when one reflects that Kant is considered to be a father of modern liberalism. Suggesting that the rights of sexual partners to each other could only be secured by marital commitment, Kant argued that "there must be a basis for restraining our freedom in the use we make of our inclinations so that they conform to the principles of morality." This is at odds...
...respect for Eric, about 300 people flooded Franklin Field last evening in a candlelight vigil in his honor...
That's because this is an issue of authority and respect, and most people see Sprewell--with his history of bad behavior and flashiness--as an extreme case to be made an example of. When other coaches were interviewed about the problems in the league, the older, whiter group repeatedly used the terms "respect for authority" and "lack of discipline." With their power eroding, coaches like Carlesimo and Don Nelson--who have a history of losing records and losing personalities--can't think of any way to earn respect other than yelling louder...
...Angeles Lakers. He told the San Francisco Chronicle, "The first time we got into it, I said, 'Don't talk to me like that. If you have to talk to me, talk to me like a man." No doubt Spree for Three complained of a lack of respect from Carlesimo partly because the stuffy white guy and corn-rowed punk have no common language. Put some mustard on the pass? Who talks like that? Red Holzman...