Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Always impatient with parliamentary processes, Park appeared to regard them at best as a necessary nuisance. He provoked the recent troubles with a highhanded abuse of the virtually absolute powers he held under the 1972 constitution. He had conducted a repressive vendetta against Kim Young Sam, head of the opposition New Democratic Party. Kim incurred Park's wrath by defying a 1975 decree against criticizing the government. The opposition leader publicly called Park's regime "basically dictatorial" and urged the U.S. to "pressure" Park into granting long-denied human rights. Park ordered his tame majority...
Students today take for granted that the single admissions committee considers applications without regard to sex, but only five years ago, Radcliffe admitted women on a strict quota system dictated by Harvard, and the two admissions committees were completely separate operations...
Since the Arab oil embargo nearly every major oil company has been researching technologies for cost-competitive production of fuels from coal, shale and tar sands, with little regard for the environmental consequences. Replacing just ten per cent of the nation's oil production with liquefied coal would require a mining capacity equal to one half of the present U. S. coal output. This would require heavy strip mining, which causes devastating damage to the land...
...larger issue of continued reliance on fossil fuels must be considered as well, particularly with regard to coal. Carbon dioxide is believed to have potential to do irreversible damage to the earth through what is known as the "greenhouse effect...
...husband and child. Another (Jobeth Williams) is held in waning esteem by her New York socialite husband and is downing one glass too many. The youngest (Christine Estabrook), a girl of vim and verve, has fallen in love with a Greek, a fate the rest of this Irish brood regard as scarcely preferable to acquiring head lice...