Word: respectable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What would you do if the Secretary-General of the United Nations came to Harvard to speak? Before today, I thought students here would give him the respect a well-respected world leader deserved. Kofi Annan's speech was met with warm feelings and multiple standing ovations...
...other members of Mandela's village where his father was the chief, approved by the British government, treated him with respect, bowing to him in the streets and addressing him in accordance with his royal status...
...have seen other politicians sway in the wind and it's a personal belief that he holds. Although people may not agree in that, they respect it," said Greg J. Kelley, a campaign volunteer...
...What you respect about Weld is his intelligence," Williams said. "He has a great wit, even if you don't agree with him. With Cellucci, I have the hard time recognizing the core...
...chose to throw good money after bad in a futile attempt to avoid a humiliating devaluation. Malaysia's cantankerous, 72-year-old Premier Mahathir Mohamad, strongman for 17 years, ran a one-man show with total control over the country's economic machinery. In his obsessive search for respect from the West, he spent lavishly to build the biggest and the tallest--the world's tallest skyscraper, the highest flagpole, the tallest control tower--wasting the foreign investment that streamed eagerly...