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Until the late '60s, the Senate was deferential to the (many fewer) presidential nominees.
At $500,000 a year, Met General Manager Joseph Volpe is well paid, but not absurdly so, for someone who runs a $150 million-a-year business and has to deal with malingering divas instead of deferential corporate vice presidents.
Annan is building an organization we can live with, one that is smaller, better run, and more deferential to the United States.
Prudie thanks you for expanding on her answer, as she is always deferential to physicians.
Clinton, after all, is incredibly deferential to his Joint Chiefs because of his own history of nonservice: It's impossible to believe that he would have overruled the chiefs if they were as absolute as the leaks suggest.