Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aged beauty who drives out her tenant, Miss Foxe, an ancient who lugs buckets of paraffin up several flights of stairs to heat her top-floor flat. In Quartet in Autumn, Pym's bleakest and most critically acclaimed book, two women and two men who share an office regard retirement with a collective dread. Their work may be inconsequential and boring, but it is their only real hold on life...
...opinion of many legal experts, last week's vote may bring precisely the opposite result because the amendment is vaguely worded. It reads in part: "The state acknowledges the right to life of the unborn and, with due regard to the life of the mother, guarantees in its laws to respect . . . vindicate and defend that right." As FitzGerald put it, "The most vulnerable word, legally speaking, is 'unborn...
...thousands of wife beaters who happen to be in prison (almost all are there for some other, less peculiar crime) regard rapists with contempt, and rapists in turn call the cellblocks' child abusers scum. But in fact the three groups have some rough affinities. The privately violent are often alcoholic or drug-dependent. All three species tend to have low opinions of themselves; they get violent, psychoanalysts say, because it gives them a cheap squirt of power. Like most criminals, they are immature and impulsive. Everything they want they want instantly. And they are uncommonly isolated people, often virtually friendless...
...report are "acquaintance rapes" or "date rapes," an increasingly common practice on college campuses. In these attacks, which represent about half of all reported rapes, the victim knows her assailant, sometimes just to say hello to and sometimes on a friendlier basis. That makes the victim fear people will regard her as guilty in some way. Says Martha Burt, research associate at the Urban Institute in Washington: "Women end up being their own worst punishers...
...ultimate domino is only a smokescreen. As Foreign Minister Bernardo Sepulveda Amor told TIME in an interview last week, "I do not think the main purpose of U.S. Central American policy is to protect Mexico. The U.S. has a different perspective related to what some people in the Administration regard as a vital strategic and political interest: to assert U.S. hegemony in the region...