Word: regarded
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...state's AAA credit rating, will vote on whether to require the legislature to set aside 5% of each year's tax revenues for a reserve against debt. Proponents call the reserve, which would amount to about $63 million this year, a rainy-day fund, while opponents regard it as a slush fund that could be used by spendthrift legislators to underwrite pork-barrel public works projects. The proposition's chances are rated as a tossup...
Whether the fence will actually keep out illegal immigrants is an open question even to Norris. Said he of the immigrants: "They'll run cars through it or put a cutting torch to it." Or simply walk around it. Mexican Americans regard the fence as insulting. Said Vilma Martinez, president of the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund: "With all due respect to Robert Frost, good fences do not make good neighbors...
...past twelve years-by staging elections in December, well before the U.N. force could be in place. Since SWAPO refuses to participate in such an election, the biracial Democratic Turnalle Alliance, which South Africa created and still dominates, would be virtually assured of victory. Third World nations regard such a voting arrangement as worthless-a view increasingly shared in the West. "You don't try to rig an election or rush it," said British Foreign Secretary David Owen. Botha's angry reply, reportedly delivered in a tense negotiating session: "Don't you try to lecture me about...
...teaching at the Catholic University of Lublin?the only Catholic center of higher education in any Communist country?and soon became head of the ethics department. He became an assistant bishop and in 1962, at a young 42, in effect the Archbishop of Cracow. He first established the international regard and contacts that were to make him Pope during the Second Vatican Council (1962-65). During the council he made eight speeches, the most memorable in favor of religious liberty. Church honors followed: a Cardinal's red hat in 1967, election as one of three Europeans on the council...
...Roman Catholics regard as the first Pope was also, of course, the first non-Italian Pope: Simon Peter, the "rock" on whom Jesus Christ said he would build his church. For most of St. Peter's 263 successors, however, it was not the universal nature of the church but the strident demands of local Roman politics, with its aristocratic, warring families, that determined their selection. No fewer than 205 of them were Italians. The 58 exceptions were 15 Greeks, 15 Frenchmen, six Germans, six Syrians, three North Africans, three Spaniards, two Dalmatians, two Goths, a Thracian, an Englishman...