Word: respecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Missouri's Richard Boiling, a Rayburn protégé and a key liberal member of the House Rules Committee; Alabama's Albert Rains, a progressive Southerner; and Pennsylvania's Francis ("Tad") Walter, chairman of the Un-American Activities Committee and a conservative Northerner who commands respect for his parliamentary abilities...
...With respect to size, no Chicago bank has grown over the last several years," grumps Chicago Banker David M. Kennedy, 56, hitting at the archaic state law that forbids any Illinois bank to open branches. Seeking another way to grow, Kennedy's Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co. (assets: $2.8 billion) this week will absorb the neighboring City National Bank & Trust Co. (assets: $385 million). The merger will make Continental Chicago's largest bank-just ahead of First National. But there may be trouble coming: though the Treasury Department approved the merger to help out slipping City National...
...which for originality of thought and richness of filth makes American-slum or Skid Row language seem puritanical and pale. But along with the four-letter words are warm passages of glistening simplicity and flights of startling insight. As each Sánchez tells of his own struggle for respect, love and individuality, the squalor fades into a natural backdrop for the intense drama of five human beings...
Passion for Quality. Now back on the job after his third hospitalization for cancer in 18 months. Fred Maytag staunchly says: '"I do not intend to diminish my activities in any respect." He is acutely aware that Grandfather Maytag's most valuable bequest was his craftsman's passion for high mechanical quality. Mass production has made this increasingly hard to achieve-especially in complicated automatic washers. So once again, Maytag is bucking the trend with a pilot program giving each worker a more complex role to perform on the assembly line. Says one woman employee, whose...
...written only one preface for five plays, but that one rings with large-spirited ill will. Some of his plays, says the author, might have reached Broadway "if I had been willing to take writing lessons from directors, but I know of no director whose writing talent I respect." A hint that this is true comes a few sentences later: "Why do you suppose every Hollywood and Broadway ham, facing a receding hairline and a sagging chin, announces that he is retiring from acting to become a director...