Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DeLuca has departmental charges still pending with regard to the Lawrence Largey case, in which an 18-year-old youth died in his cell after arrest. DeLuca was one of the arresting officers. His counsel was unavailable for comment...
...unavoidable and therefore try to achieve its aims with the least loss of human life. So "as soon as war is declared, they promise great rewards to anyone who will kill the enemy's king, and smaller (but still very great) rewards for killing those whom they regard as most responsible after the king for plotting aggression against them . . . Though this manner of waging war . . . may seem like cruel villainy . . . it is considered by the Utopians as a wise and praiseworthy policy, since it enables them to wage great wars without any battle at all. They even think themselves...
...willingness to suspend the pursuit of immediate self-interest to act for the common good. This may always have been more of an ideal than a fact. But today, more than ever, we see growing numbers of individuals and groups simply fighting for their immediate interest and gain, without regard for the goals or even the survival of the society as a whole. That is one cause of the recent pressing series of scandals in Government and private institutions; it is a part of the moral malaise, the sense of our having gone wrong somewhere, that afflicts the country...
...every man to better his condition"?or, bluntly, self-interest. Only this drive moves men to produce the goods that society needs. As he put it: "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest." (Smith, observed English Economist Walter Bagehot in 1888, "thought that there was a Scotchman inside every...
...karat fortune. The loot has been missing since 1945, when the Fascist collaborator Subhas Chandra Bose perished in an air crash. Bird-dogging the musty trail of the treasure, Detective Chan takes on a slew of Oriental cutthroats, as well as the colonial snobs who disdainfully regard him as a subgumshoe. Ceylonese Author Owen Cela is obviously no stranger to the refractions of cultural prejudice or to the vagaries of modern criminals. His novel is an acute introduction to the social history of that paradoxically outdated and utterly contemporary city, Hong Kong...