Word: respective
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While many issues can and should be left to the states, water problems do not respect state boundaries. The federal government has a vital role to play as arbitrator, coordinator, and as the articulator of a broad national water policy that local governments can use as a guideline for the hard water choices of the next decade...
Although Dukakis' proposal to create a Environment Department is well-intentioned, it has possible drawbacks, particularly with respect to water resources. A maze of agencies, councils, committees and departments with some authority in water issues already exists to create a poorly integrated administrative structure--one sharply criticized in the K-School report. The new cabinet level position might only add to the confusion, due to the inevitable wrangling and ambiguity over responsibility for various areas. It has the potential to sunder water quality from water quantity--almost certainly a mistake...
Interior Minister Sergio Fernandez pledged to respect the results of Wednesday's referendum, but also to enforce a 1980 constitution the political opposition wants changed...
...Pearl says, "We no longer look at the real definition of liberalism. All we see is the history of the past eight years, rather than the historical definition of the liberal tradition that people respect--Kennedy, Roosevelt...
Does the B.U. faculty think Silber is reasonable? Apparently not, given their repeated attempts to oust him. Why then should students try to engage in reasonable discourse with the man or his administration? Silber has proven again and again that he doesn't respect students' right to free speech; faculty members complain that he fires dissenters in their ranks. What could dialogue produce with a man who doesn't want to hear the other side...