Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they don't respond to what the faculty are asking them to do, I don't know who they'll respect...
Some participants in the meeting, who asked not to be quoted directly, said they felt this lack of direct responsibility to students meant the committee had little incentive to respect the ideas or opinions of residents who were not active committee participants...
...players expressed respect for Tomassoni and the effort he put into Harvard hockey...
America decided 200 years ago to keep her church and state separate, out of respect for both. But Columbine confounds the Constitution; everyone is coloring outside the lines, between what is sacred, what is secular. Ministers call on lawmakers to pass gun-control laws, lawmakers call for religious revival, and Al Gore appears on Larry King Live, not just to talk about his three-point plan to make the Internet less toxic but also to recall his days as a divinity student and cite parables and argue that Littleton is "a spiritual signal," a chance to ask questions that aren...
...kidneys from the dead are another matter entirely. There is a distinction between strip-mining a live person and strip-mining a dead one. To be crude about it, whereas a person is not a commodity, a dead body can be. Yes, it is treated with respect (which is why humans bury their dead). But it is not inviolable. It does not warrant the same reverence as that accorded a living soul...