Word: respecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...telling just what he was going to do when he got there. What was this major criticism of the structure of our government? --Not enough power for the man at the top cabinet rank and not enough independence of these men from congressional control. Perhaps Bundy is right with respect to domestic policy. Bundy's recommendations would amount to giving the Secretary of State even more power than the office now affords, and freeing the Secretary and the President even more from the control of Congress. But this is just what McCarthy has been campaigning against. The President...
...also disagree with the author's contentions that the services are primarily interested in recruiting career officers and that there has been a major change in this respect.... I believe that the majority of career officers in the Army, Air Force and Marine Corps are non-service academy graduates, many of whom are ROTC graduates. Since World War II an increasing proportion of career Navy officers have been non-services academy graduates...
...there is something worse than neglect of our public schools, it is the spectacle of teachers manning a picket line [March 8]. No matter how worthy are demands that educators be given professional status and their institutions increased respect and support, locking a child out of his classroom is an unconscionable act. The riddle of ends and means has become an old cliche, but its implicit moral dilemma is timeless and might serve well for teachers to ponder amid all that walking with lofty placards...
...major respect, the Senate code is firm: it precludes use of campaign funds for personal expenses, a la Dodd. It also requires Senators and Senate employees to list outside interests, property holdings, debts, gifts, etc. But these lists would be filed in sealed envelopes with the U.S. comptroller general, to be made public only by a majority vote of the six-man Committee on Standards and Conduct after charges of improper conduct had been brought and public hearings held...
...show called This Morn ing on ABC, he has plunged into that grey Sargasso Sea of morning game shows and reruns, and already he's making steady, perceptible waves of laugh ter. There is something vaguely immoral about one-liners at 10:30 a.m., but Cavett has no respect. Amid all the yak, yak, yak on daytime TV, he has snuck in a genuine yuk. And mean while the breakfast dishes are stacking up in the sink like poker chips...