Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...affair served to confirm all the worst suspicions about the CIA and its exaggerated image as a vast conspiracy. Reaction abroad ranged from incredulity to dismay. The London Times called the revelations "a bitter draught" for those who regard the U.S. as "sometimes clumsy, often misunderstood, but fundamentally honorable in its conduct of international affairs." West Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung predicted that "the disconcerting naiveté with which President Ford enunciated his secret service philosophy" would have a "provocative" effect...
Many religious thinkers believe that the pardon has done serious harm. They argue that, because it has halted the due process of law in regard to Nixon's actions in Watergate, the pardon constitutes a grave miscarriage of justice. Americans now will never know the full truth about Watergate, or be assured, as they had a right to be, that there were not other, more fearful skeletons in the White House closets. Richard Nixon may well be suffering, but the American people have also suffered?and at Nixon's hands. Deceived, anguished, still too much in the dark about...
...announced his intention to veto a bill lowering the possible penalty for possession of small amounts of marijuana from ten years' to six months' imprisonment. Is it any wonder that the poor, the ethnic minorities and the young, who are the real consumers of the criminal law, regard it as stacked in favor of the rich and powerful...
Mexico continues to be an island of stability, and not only in Latin America. Regard your own circumstances: in eleven years, one President assassinated, countless riots, assaults and kidnapings, a long and unjust war waged against the will of the people, the highest officials of the Executive Branch on trial, and political scandal as a way of life. The "island of stability" to which your article refers prevails throughout the Western Hemisphere...
...isle urge? It goes deeper than the fortress mentality of those who fear assault or long for solitude. While most bankers regard island buyers as psychiatric cases or at least outlandish Thoreauvians, a cool quest for profit is a major motive for many investors who never even set foot on their seagirt dominions. Off Nova Scotia there are so many islands-some of them mere specks on the chart-that they are almost beyond count...