Word: regarded
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Nixon has tried to make fast his slipping anchor on the right. He scuttled a land-use bill in Congress, opposed big subsidies for mass transit and proposed amendments to weaken a consumer-protection bill. But conservatives regard such shifts as being too little and too late. Says Maryland Congressman Robert Bauman: "After five years of losing initiative a change at the last minute to win back our support isn't going to help." So much criticism of Nixon was voiced at a conference of conservatives in Washington last January that Presidential Assistant Patrick Buchanan rather defensively asserted...
...faculty level, Harvard protects itself against the obvious dangers of cronyism by the ad hoc committee system; and Affirmative Action procedures often do widen the pool and diminish the potency of the old boy network. But there are costs in the policy of recruiting on an individualistic basis without regard to catalytic quality; and the moral and intellectual quality of a university must be seen as living in precarious tension among competing values. David Riesman...
...Sapir. However, the coalition is much less secure than before the election, and it could easily fall apart if the peace talks take certain turns. The National Religious Party and Moshe Dayan's right-wing segment of Labor appear to oppose territorial concessions to Jordan, for instance, since they regard the West Bank as historically part of Israel. United with Begin on this issue, they could command as many as 60 seats and bring down the government. And while negotiations with Jordan do not appear in the immediate offing, they may not be too far off in the future...
...invention. Still, one wonders if there are any virgins at Harvard; and factories do pollute. No belief in the value of the past and an absence of hope in the future characterize every part of Harvard. In attempting to avoid cynicism, Harvard students exalt form over content, and regard style as superior to substance. Lectures are largely empty expositions, gracefully delivered, laced with phrases from Romance languages, and embroidered with intellectual gossip. Students select courses on the basis of the celebrities who teach them (or because they are guts or required) reflecting the deeply ingrained consumer consciousness. Papers, often written...
Speakers stressed the importance of mass education and noted that a legislator would regard as few as six letters on the subject as a public opinion landslide...