Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...immense respect Wahid commands from across the political spectrum that allowed him to seize the presidency. He knew the incumbent, B.J. Habibie, was too unpopular to be re-elected, but he also knew that his former ally Megawati was not going to be able to get enough votes in the assembly to win. Megawati's P.D.I. party had won the single largest share of the vote in June's national elections. But subsequently the former housewife failed to reach out to other parties to guarantee herself a majority in the assembly. Muslim parties began to rail against the prospect...
...victory they scored last week by persuading CompUSA Inc., the largest U.S. computer retailer, to dramatically expand its advertising in black-owned media really belongs to the show's 7 million, mostly African-American, listeners. They showed how powerful consumers can be in the fight for racial respect...
...quest for Broadway respect, Saturday Night Fever has done almost everything wrong. It's a big, splashy musical trying to replicate a hit movie, a pretty crass way to make a buck. Its director, Arlene Phillips, is better known for staging extravaganzas in Las Vegas. The show is loud and pushy and panders to the crowd shamelessly. Worse, it overcame critical hoots to become a smash in London, a feat it now has the audacity to think it can repeat in New York City...
...been thinking for months: "She lives in a rarefied air that's very thin. It's like she's not getting enough oxygen." Precisely. It's only a matter of time before Gwyneth suffocates. Because on set, off set, Gwyneth has convinced herself that the only way to gain respect is to act. To act continuously. After all, look at the track record--she's told us many times that she was the "it" girl at her high school who all the girls worshipped, she's never gone six months without a boyfriend in her life, and she nabbed...
Brooke M. Ellison '00, co-chair of disabled advocacy group EMPOWER: Encouraging Mankind to Perceive Others with Equal Respect, said that while Harvard has been accommodating with regard to her disability, she has more trouble off campus...