Word: respecting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Warsaw to release jailed protesters. Meantime, a loose group of dissident Czechoslovak intellectuals, Charter '77, has demanded?to no avail?that the regime in Prague begin to respect the human rights guaranteed by its laws...
Many of the new directions seek to spur economic growth by encouraging higher productivity and renewed respect for China's educators and scientists. Teachers are now being told to spend nearly all their time in classroom work, rather than doing the manual labor so beloved by China's radicals. University entrance examinations, once scorned as "revisionist," have been reinstated. Some prominent victims of past ideological attacks have been restored to grace. Several hundred members of Shanghai's Academy of Sciences, who were once accused of being secret agents of Taiwan's Kuomintang, have been exonerated...
...recent athletic budget cuts at the University of Pennsylvania raise the possibility of a similar scenario occurring at other Ivy institutions. The aggressive, organized response of Penn students to the elimination of several athletic teams points up a related question with respect to Harvard: In the absence of a crisis, how much input do students have into our athletic department...
...somewhat different from the more conventional, career-directed students of today. Yet it was not difficult for corporations to recruit the '60s kids. As products of the postwar baby boom, they faced stiff competition for places in law and medical schools. And as they became breadwinners, they gained more respect for the financial and psychic payoffs offered in the corporate world...
...simply trying to become a free man. I'm trying to set up an alternative film making that allows me more freedom to do what I want, within certain parameters. We're trying to make a company that will respect the personality and individuality of film makers. Part of my good fortune is to be making progress in that direction. I feel it's a destiny of sorts." He is already helping, free of charge, his friend Francis Coppola cut his epic Apocalypse Now and trim it to something like four hours...