Word: demeaned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some people think that to mix religion and politics is to pollute and endanger both. Other people think that to separate the spiritual and civil orders is to desiccate and demean both. In many ways, the latter people are clearly seizing the time. In one way or another, the latter way of thinking is almost certain to win the Day toward which we are heading and which some of us will...
...C.N.O., Zumwalt has effectively applied his philosophical bent-an unusual blend of suave intellectualism in the Maxwell Taylor tradition and a populist disdain for those traditions that demean low-ranking personnel. The result is what the civilian-edited Navy Times calls "an electric feeling throughout the whole Navy." One Zumwalt technique, as at San Diego, has been to visit naval installations to hear out his men. Already he has met with some 30,000 of them. He has also initiated what he calls, a bit stuffily, "retention study groups"-personnel from selected categories who spend a week at the Pentagon...
They have abdicated their responsibility to protest corporate pollution practices and by doing so, "they demean themselves as human beings as well as professional beings." Nader said...