Word: respectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prefer to follow the departing Sun Life Assurance Co. to Toronto, the center of anglophone Canada. Once internationally recognized as a full-fledged nation, we will still be as large as Austria or Switzerland, and twice the size of Israel. Like those countries, all we ask for is your respect and noninterference...
...thwarted. Still refusing to be satisfied as the prince of pornography, Thevis bought one of the finest recording studios in the South and tried his touch out on Hollywood's biggest pinball machine-the movie business. Tilt, game over; score no points for bravado. Mike Thevis got no respect...
...horses. Despite their success on the track, expenses are so high ($3 million a year) that the Wolfsons have not always been in the black during the past few years. Affirmed has solved that problem. Some of the Wolfsons' horses are kept in Kentucky, where Louis is respected as a smart and honest man. Says one of Kentucky's leading racing figures: "He went from a leading owner to a jailbird, to a man who couldn't race, to a leading owner - and he never cried. I have a lot of respect for him." Says Editor Kent...
...when a committee caught a tough Bedouin whose tribe had worn long hair for centuries. The tribesman fought back and was stabbed to death in the fight; the leader of the committee was tried, convicted and beheaded. The committees will publicly flog anyone found drinking alcohol in public. But respect for privacy is so great in Saudi Arabia that not even the most fanatical of these protectors of public virtue would ever dream of breaking into a home...
...invisibly-in the name of tax reform. The threat lies in proposals that would reduce, directly and indirectly, the charitable contributions Americans itemize as deductions from taxable income. And there are even those who, with the intent of simplifying the tax code, would eliminate such deductions entirely. With due respect to the reformers, the alarm should be shouted: Our tradition of private giving for public purposes is endangered by some of their good intentions...