Word: respectable
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Although recession looms large in Latin America, a slow and painful bottoming out of the crisis is occurring in East Asia. But the return to growth will be very gradual, barring any other unforeseen disruption. In this respect, the ability of China to manage the stability-growth-reform trilemma in an increasingly difficult environment is an ominous question mark. In the same vein, the issue of when Japan will start to become part of the solution to global economic woes instead of being part of the problem remains open...
...with her hypnotic legal lullaby; Nicole Seligman bleaching the House case; Democrat Dianne Feinstein trying to be genuinely stern with an adolescent President; Republicans Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins emerging from the back benches to call for a reasoned response. You could disagree with their positions and still respect their conduct...
...profit from Clinton's shortcomings in a subtler way, by playing up questions of character without tying them to particulars of sexual behavior. In a speech in New Hampshire last week, Elizabeth Dole talked about how "the presidency has been tarnished...words have been devalued, and institutions have squandered respect." Other Republicans are refining the language they will use to accuse Al Gore of passive complicity in the actions that brought Clinton to the brink of removal from office. "If Clinton is Teflon, Gore may be Velcro for a lot of this," says Castellanos. "At some point...
...presidential historian. He also served as a special assistant to John F. Kennedy. This week he assesses Bill Clinton's potential legacy. "No one approves of his behavior," Schlesinger says, "but I think there is a difference between private misconduct and public misconduct, and the American electorate deserves great respect for its capacity to distinguish between...
...walking college lecture--he is also dean of the University of Virginia school of architecture--McDonough is a compendium of similar maxims, phrases and rules: "Honor commerce as the engine of change"; "respect diversity"; "build for abundance"; "eco-efficiency should be replaced by eco-effectiveness"; "design is the first signal of human intention"; "all sustainability, like politics, is local"; "I want to do architecture that is timeless and mindful...