Word: respects
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...last night's Undergraduate Council meeting, newly elected officers emphasized two main goals for their upcoming terms: The council must earn respect in the eyes of students and maintain connections to their constituents...
...more time to prepare for depositions, limited the scope of House questioning and, in a major concession, gave Daschle the power to veto any further witnesses the House managers might want to call. "He didn't have to give me veto power," says Daschle, "and for that I greatly respect and appreciate...
...offering such mischief on behalf of his party, Daschle enjoys a respect he did not always have. He won his post in 1995 by a single vote over Connecticut's Christopher Dodd. Running in the wake of the Republican takeover, Daschle was opposed by old lions like Moynihan and Byrd, who thought he lacked the necessary ballast. Since then Byrd has twice nominated him to continue as the party's leader. Dodd, now one of Daschle's close confidants, marvels at his old rival's political skills. "I would have lost it long ago," he says, noting the patience Daschle...
...individual comes close to matching the affection and respect enjoyed by Hussein among both Israelis and Palestinians, but Hussein's life had always been about straddling different worlds. He was at once the beloved monarch of the nomadic Bedouin tribesmen and the cosmopolitan statesman trained in British military academies who loved flying his own plane and was married to an American -- Queen Noor, formerly Lisa Halaby. (She was his fourth wife: A youthful marriage to a Palestinian woman ended in divorce, as did his union with Toni Gardiner, daughter of a British Army officer and mother of his heir, Crown...
...small group of elite screenwriters finally walked away from Columbia Pictures with exactly such a deal, one that TIME senior entertainment reporter William Tynan says it's largely symbolic. "It acknowledges the significant role they play in the success of a movie and it garners a little more respect for them." But, he notes, it's unclear what the arrangement will accomplish in practical terms...