Word: regard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...personal gain blinds us from seeing a responsiblity to our fellow citizens and, through the state, to ourselves. As Harvard president emeritus Derek C. Bok writes in his most recent book, The State of the Nation, "[T]he United States is constantly at risk of having its people regard their government merely as a service which they purchase with their taxes and which they are entitled to complain about loudly when it does not deliver good value for their money." I argue that it is more than a risk. Such a mindset has set in, and as a result civic...
...required by law to make regulatory decisions without regard to the cost of implementing them, and Browner, in her typical up-front fashion, acknowledged from the start that the cost of the new standards will be high--up to $8.5 billion a year, according to agency estimates. Yet the cleanup will, by her calculations, also save 15,000 lives, cut hospital admissions for respiratory illness by 9,000 and reduce chronic bronchitis cases by 60,000 each year. Surely that is worth a few billion...
...women and men, generals with four stars and those with only three, friends of the Secretary of Defense and those who have not yet had the pleasure of meeting him. Herewith, then, the protocol for adultery detection and punishment, to be posted immediately at all bases and implemented without regard to the suspected adulterer's sex, rank or likelihood of being appointed Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...satellite and now the Internet--competing for consumers' attention, it's easier than ever for messages to get lost or ignored. So even though his airline was enjoying a record year financially, United chairman Gerald Greenwald sacked Burnett in October, noting that today's hate-to-fly passengers hardly regard the skies as friendly...
...corporate culture abhors an undereducated employee. Three-quarters of today's working women regard computer proficiency as essential to women's professional advancement, a survey released last week by Avon Products reports. For years, boys have been using video games as entry points into the world of serious computing. Purple Moon and its competitors think it's high time America's girls got their share of the action...