Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most U.S. citizens smugly regard their dollar as the solidest, most invulnerable currency in the world. The somewhat shocking fact is that the U.S. dollar now sells at a discount in relation to practically every other currency in which there is still a free market. The cause is simple. For once in its long, protectionist history, the U.S. is buying from much of the rest of the world more than it is exporting in return. (Lend-Lease arms for the United Nations and exports to U.S. armed forces naturally do not affect the balance of trade in terms of foreign...
...Peace. For such reasons Wall Streeters have touted I.T. & T. as a peace stock. But Sosthenes Behn, I.T. & T.'s almost legendary president, has good reason to regard it as a war baby too, since his two-year-old plant in New Jersey is 95% engaged on Government contracts. Urbane, hawk-nosed, 61-year-old Sosthenes, who got his name from the Greek word meaning "life strength," was born in the Virgin Islands, of French and Danish parents. Schooled in Corsica and Paris, at 19 he was an up-&-coming banker in Manhattan, grew a luxuriant beard to disguise...
...accord with anti-saloon propaganda, most citizens regard alcoholism as a moral offense; it is actually a disease...
...press--for destruction. By twisting the words of the speaker, by adding a few, the reporter is able to come up with a completely warped story, an editorial rather than a news report. The chaplain did not say, and, by his own pronouncement, does not believe that we should regard Communistic Russia as a threat. He merely argues that democracy should be carefully safeguarded as our way of government...
...your readiness to forget the main point in your immediate enjoyment of human suffering," warns him: "I sometimes wonder if you young fiends ... are not in some danger of becoming infected by the sentiments and values of the humans among whom you work. They, of course, do tend to regard death as the prime evil and survival as the greatest good. But that is because we have taught them...