Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University shuns its responsibilities to the city of Cambridge as well, buying property left and right with little concern for the problems it creates for local residents beyond the most perfunctory public statements. In the Medical Area, it has built a $200 million power plant with little regard for the environmental havoc it might cause in nearby residential areas, and fought desperately against efforts to make the plant's operation cleaner. Harvard acts as though it exists in a vacuum, and pays no attention to the repercussions of its actions in Cambridge. Today the city is powerless to do much...
Most of the Haitian boat people live in northeast Miami's "Little Haiti," working as maids, dishwashers, gas-station attendants and in other unskilled jobs. The U.S. has so far refused to regard them as political refugees, though their reasons for leaving Haiti sound similar to those of the Cuban refugees; both groups cite political persecution and extreme poverty. Carter said he was "greatly concerned" about the Haitians and had ordered federal agencies to "treat the Haitians in the same exact humane manner as we treat Cubans...
...including about 2 million in the U.S. Yet, as effective as the I.U.D. is, preventing pregnancy for years at a time with no special effort by the woman, it has lately become a center of controversy. Some patients and physicians believe that I.U.D.s have been prescribed indiscriminately, with little regard for the risk of infection in the reproductive system or the danger of causing infertility...
...their eggs in my direction when I didn't cook them properly, I know all about poached eggs." Still, the practice must go at Eton, as it has already elsewhere in Britain. Says Old Etonian Lord Redcliffe-Maud: "It's a source of misunderstanding by outsiders, who regard fagging as a brutal form of slavery. It's nothing like that of course, but people think it is, and that's enough...
...something I don't want to lose. I might sacrifice morality, Hitler, for example, in defense of democracy. The will of the majority is not always right, and is many times wrong. I know it. In my bones, I know it, Hitler. Yet to democratically legalize morality--even with regard to the most evil things in our society--I am told, could wind up making the good legally immoral...