Leaders all over Africa need to rebuild our African pride and the faith of young Africans in their leaders, this is one way I think they could achieve this and gain a respectable place in the world as peers.
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Respectable bicameral democracies around the world confine direct election to one chamber only.
Still, Johannesburg, which started life as a gold-rush town, is very much a go-go business city and the headquarters for most of South Africa's international companies. (This can be double-edged: Anglo Platinum recently poached its new chief executive, Ralph Havenstein, from Sasol.) It boasts the 21st-largest stock market in the world, and its financial officials have managed a respectable rebound from the 2002 rout of the rand.
The world economy may see a few quarters of respectable growth, but it will not bounce back to where it would have been had the crisis never happened.
Nor does he explore, in any meaningful way, the contrast between the advance of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints around the world as a church of the upwardly mobile and the respectable middle class, and the extremism of the church's American fundamentalists.
And it has a respectable business plan: to provide telecom services to those parts of the world where wireless or fixed-line service doesn't really exist--Equatorial Africa and the upper reaches of the Amazon--or where it's inadequate, as in many areas of Africa, India and Latin America.
In December 1998 we shined a bright light on the murky world of corporate tax shelters, which were being hustled to large companies by supposedly respectable outfits.
It is no longer possible in any big, respectable country to insist with a sophisticated shrug that doing deals in some parts of the world always means paying kickbacks.
Mr Arafat needs a deal that offers West Bankers and Gazans a respectable-seeming independent state while not ignoring the concerns of the Palestinian diaspora and the wider Islamic world.
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"The Polaroid Years: Instant Photography and Experimentation" at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College does a respectable job, within space constraints, of tracing the company's imprint on the post-1970s American art world.
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