Word: regarded
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Reagan has instructed party leaders around the country to recruit as many volunteers as possible without regard for their viewpoints. Ideological purity is not the price of admission to party affairs. Last month Reagan met in Chicago with a number of Republican Governors, a group that has not generally supported his candidacy, and he assured them that he wanted to work with them. He also placated moderates by keeping Bill Brock as R.N.C. chairman. Traditionally the nominee puts his own man in the post, but Brock had won widespread support from conservatives and moderates alike for his successful efforts...
...move is an effort to persuade doctors to be more judicious in prescribing such drugs. But the agency's warning is not binding, and doctors will still be able to administer tranquilizers as they see fit. Indeed, some critics regard the action as little more than a sugar-coated placebo that will have little effect. As a consequence, they are calling for even stronger measures to cope with what FDA Commissioner Jere Goyan, a pharmacist, calls "our overmedicated society." One reform proposed by Dr. Sidney Wolfe, head of Ralph Nader's Health Research Group: require doctors to write...
...regard inflation, rather than economic stagnation, as the main economic enemy. Said their joint declaration: "The reduction of inflation is our immediate top priority and will benefit all nations." Thus, the allies committed themselves to "encouraging investment and innovation" and "shifting resources from government spending to the private sector...
...former Prime Minister's links to the Lockheed scandal (Tanaka resigned before being indicted for taking a $2 million bribe). Another candidate, Yasuhiro Nakasone, 62, has served as secretary general of the party and in various Cabinet posts, including that of Defense Minister. Some of his colleagues regard him as an untrustworthy opportunist because he has been known to switch allegiances within party factions. The third prospect, former Foreign Minister Kiichi Miyazawa, 60, is respected as an intellectual but considered by some as too much of a gentleman to be able to control the factions...
...center of Morgantown, Dr. W. Keith Morgan and his colleagues examined 200 miners who had claimed black lung benefits. Only eight qualified by existing compensation criteria; they had somewhat impaired breathing ability. Even so, none showed any indication of progressive massive fibrosis, a stiffening of lung tissue that doctors regard as the true sign of permanent disability...