Word: respectable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ruth Bridgeman, 79, who leased her property to Hydro Resources several years ago. Leonard Arviso, a Navajo who acts as the company's liaison to his tribe, talks not of land or money but of children who are forced to leave the community for lack of jobs. "We can respect Mother Earth," he says, "without wasting...
...problem during the past school year when I taught a class of fifth graders non-violent conflict resolution skills with the organization Peace Games, Inc. Those ten-and eleven-year-olds in Dorchester were an energetic and cynical audience. They were able to answer leading questions about safety and respect with enough ease and assurance to make my questions seem fairly trite...
...maybe it's one thing to proclaim your love for democracy and self-determination in the form of support of a small Asian nation. And it's another thing actually to respect the people themselves. Brownback caused quite a stir not too long ago when he mocked their accents amid the whole Clinton donation scandal: "No raise money, no get bonus," he remarked at a Congressional hearing...
...wonderful to work with. He had infinite respect for everyone at every level. He treated everyone with courtesy and decency. He had a subtle sense of humor," Gianfortoni said...
...last year. "His immense credibilty had always come from the fact that he always had all the information," Tumulty says. "But when the big Clinton scandals hit, he was shut out. His obvious frustration with that -- and his refusal to lie about it to us -- earned him both respect and a degree of sympathy...