Word: regarded
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...Senators who are running for reelection, and only one said that he planned to ask the President for campaign help. He was Oklahoma's Henry Bellmon, who served as a national campaign chairman for Nixon in 1968. Oregon's Bob Packwood said that "most people would now regard close association with the Administration as the kiss of death...
President Nixon, who had warned the Arabs not to attach any "conditions" to the lifting of the five-month-old embargo, chose not to regard the decision to review as being a condition. That was a wise diplomatic attitude; without such a string attached, it is unlikely that the divided Arab* could ever have agreed on a plan for resuming exports to the U.S. As it was, Syria and Libya refused to join in the decision, taken in Vienna at a meeting of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries...
...biggest problem was not its enemies but its "self-assertive" allies. But many European leaders feel that the U.S., and Kissinger in particular, deserve most of the blame for any deterioration in the Atlantic Alliance. The complaints can perhaps be summed up in a listing of what they regard, rightly or wrongly, as Kissinger's seven deadly sins...
...order and light. His work featured the use of stark, geometric shapes and an emphasis on natural light and the moods created by it. He also incorporated such traditionally concealed "servant" elements as ducts, pipes and storage space into visible design. Slight and white-haired, with a poetic regard for his materials ("A brick is happy when it is an arch"), Kahn was best known for the Salk Institute complex in La Jolla, Calif., and for his recently completed Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth. He also designed the capital buildings in Dacca, Bangladesh...
Human Nature. But what takes Heilbroner beyond 1974's gloom-as-usu-al is his rediscovery of and pessimism about human nature. Old-style progressives, if they accepted the concept of human nature at all, used to regard it as either essentially good or infinitely correctible. But Heilbroner now doubts that mankind can be brought to care enough about the future to do what is necessary to save the present - especially as regards self-denial. Can 20th century civilization give up the "ethos of 'science' " (not to mention the work ethic) and for sake the now monstrous...