Word: regarded
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...this. To have your eye on the deficit with regard to defense is to ignore, as some predecessors have, that the primary objective of Government must be the protection of the liberties of our people. The No. 1 priority of the Federal Government is national security. Therefore defense cannot be looked at as a part of a budgetary solution. Defense must be looked at as to what needs to be done to ensure our national security. This doesn't mean that if you can find places-and we are trying constantly, and Cap [Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger] has been...
...portable rests on a chuck wagon; pickup trucks wait outside wilderness taverns; mud-and blood-spattered rodeo riders hanker after Stetsoned girls who put Vaseline on their teeth to enhance their smiles. William Albert Allard's pictures catch it all, with a unique mixture of regard and regret...
...uncertainties about the MX and Dense Pack-whether either will work, whether the missile is a crucial need, a bargaining chip, or a weapon the Soviets will regard as a first-strike threat, in which case it will invite rather than deter attack-are all expected to be exploited by MX critics on Capitol Hill. With deficits soaring and budget cuts painful to pinpoint, the MX is a tempting target for legislators who read last month's elections as a mandate for defense cuts. The potentially bitter debate also follows recent victories at the polls by the nation...
...women. This is the question I never got to ask: "General, you say that nine million registered men are more than enough to fight a war. If only white men and women were drafted, they would probably be enough too, but Selective Service registration doesn't discriminate explicitly with regard to skin color. Why then does it do so on the basis of gender...
...HISTORIC Stockholm Conference in 1972, conservationists first made the world aware that natural resources are finite. The meeting kicked off environmentalist movements in number of countries, as people and groups began to realize that the traditional global pattern of resource consumption without regard for the future could lead to disaster. Today, a relatively small circle of concerned scientists have launched a similar campaign to end the wholesale destruction of a little-known endangered resource--the tropical rain forest...