Word: respecting
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...spring training, you see an endless parade of young kids. We're all trying to figure out which one of these kids is going to be a good player. They have their way of approaching it, and I have my way of approaching it. But I have tremendous respect for their skills, and in our organization at least, if they don't [respect me], they're polite enough to keep it to themselves. That kind of tension doesn't really exist...
...children we represent, particularly the girls. They are marrying later and having fewer children. Families are healthier, and mortality rates have decreased. Children are learning much needed life skills. More important, there is now hope. Despite staggering odds, kids are thinking about the future. There is new respect for the rule of law and support for democracy. Communities that have fought for years have laid down their weapons. Children are learning common languages and even playing soccer together. Schools are not simply teaching the three R's; they are also nation-building. Julia M. Bolz, Founder, Journey with an Afghan...
...Such violent confrontations are increasingly common in China, where decades of frantic growth have generated an equally frantic desire to cash in by developers, often aided or partnered by corrupt local government officials. But the Zhuhai case is different in one critical respect: after their claims were twice denied by the courts, the villagers issued a proclamation rejecting the land seizures as illegal and asserting their rights over ancestral plots for them and succeeding generations - rights they said they were prepared to "defend to the death." (Officials of Yicheng, the county seat with jurisdiction over Zhuhai, did not respond...
...promised that there would be no double standards. "If she continues, as over the last week, to bring up real estate transactions and the character of our supporters who have provided donations to our campaign, then we will make certain that she has to answer those same questions with respect to herself, her husband and her campaign," he said...
...Meanwhile, holding the people who cover you in such low regard makes it more difficult for the Clintons to persuade fair-minded journalists of just about anything. If the press isn't worthy of any respect, then there's no reason not to manipulate it with impunity - but no important journalist wants to be manipulated. You can scold Ted Koppel for chasing trash - once - but you pay a price when the "trash" turns out to be true. No one likes being played for a chump...