Word: regarded
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...arrived to join Scott in Buenos Aires last week. "Since my return," Hillenbrand says, "I have been amazed at the unanimity on the Falklands issue." Associate Editor George Russell, who wrote the cover story, was the Buenos Aires-based bureau chief from 1979 to 1981. He found that "Argentines regard the Falklands issue as an article of faith." Caribbean Bureau Chief William McWhirter, on the scene in Buenos Aires for three weeks, headed south to Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego; until ordered back to Buenos Aires late last week by the authorities, he had been the only non-Argentine correspondent...
...veering between authoritarianism and anarchy have produced a political culture of cynicism in Argentina. What is right is all too often what can be got away with. In that context, many if not most Argentines regard fulfillment of their historical claim to the Falklands as more important than the means used to attain it. Even though the population has become increasingly restive after six years of military rule, the junta enjoys solid public support for its stand on the Falklands...
...California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, perhaps the best engineering school in the U.S., a pack of recruiters from 169 companies pounced on 147 graduates this past winter. They regard each recruit from Caltech as a "capture," in the jargon of the business, to be treasured and pampered. Kenneth Sieck, 22, has talked with 20 aerospace company recruiters and has taken six plant tours, including a visit to an IBM facility in Tucson, complete with rental car, dinner and lunches. At Northrop Aircraft, company officials proudly showed him their latest equipment...
...general impression is that the Corporation takes very seriously the advice given it by the advisory committee," he says, adding. "They do not disregard they regard carefully and disagree. And their desk is the place where the buck stops on this issue...
Other schools in the Boston area have different policies with regard to Southwestern. MIT doesn't allow the company to recruit on campus because "students objected to misleading advertisements." Phyllis Jackson, assistant director of career planning and placement, says. Jackson adds that in the past recruiters have asked to use MIT rooms to interview but have been denied permission since they refuse to fill out detailed information forms about the company. Boston University has also banned Southwestern because recruiters used campus facilities without permission...