Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Furthermore, the rules governing Title IX compliance with respect to academic programs has never been ironed out--only a court can flesh out the law's official interpretation, but no school wants to be the legal guinea pig. As a result, most schools have been wary of instituting single-sex academic programs that could open them up to a legal challenge...
...People give to people," Boardman says. He says the respect Harvard's leadership engenders was "one of the most powerful forces Harvard had" in raising money during the campaign...
...said he thought both Wei and Wang were worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize nomination. He has had personal contact with Wang since he came to Harvard last year. Bol said that since his first encounter with Wang, he has had the highest respect for the celebrated dissident...
...pattern isn't new. Last year the Texas G.O.P. refused to let the Log Cabin Republicans, a national organization of gay G.O.P. members, set up a booth at the party's convention. Bush spoke out on behalf of the Log Cabin, saying it "should be treated with dignity and respect." But when the Texas legislature considered a hate-crime bill with special penalties for crimes against gays, he opposed it. He promised to veto any bill repealing the state's homosexual-sodomy law, and he supported legislation that would ban gay adoption and even take children away from gay couples...
...oddly hesitant to call himself a filmmaker is Pixar's chairman and CEO, Steve Jobs. With Apple consuming so much time these days, he is rarely at the studio--which is just fine by employees, who both fear and respect him. The truth is that without Jobs, who bought the company from director George Lucas in 1986 and now owns nearly 65%, Pixar would simply not exist. He is credited with wangling an extraordinary fifty-fifty profit-sharing deal with Disney in 1997 for five pictures. "It's his vision. He's the real deal," says Thomas Schumacher, president...