Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pope's decision, they said, stemmed from his general views on the separation of church and state. John Paul has repeatedly said the church and its clergy must stay aloof from party strife. In Mexico in January 1979 he said: "The church wishes to stay free with regard to the competing [political] systems, in order to opt only for man." These views presumably reflect the fact that one reason the church in John Paul's native Poland has been able to thrive is that it has kept strictly apart from the country's Communist rulers...
...this regard, it is hard to see what a minority student center that fulfills the social, cultural, and educational needs of Harvard undergraduates who are mostly citizens of the United States has to do with the Third World. Sanjeev Mehra...
...thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o 'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry And lose the name of action." -Hamlet...
...only the slimmest chance of winning the presidency. Just getting on the ballot will require him to wage a long guerrilla campaign through a swamp of bewilderingly complex state election laws, and he will get no federal cash because he is not running as a party man. Historically, voters regard an independent candidacy as hopeless and make their choice between the major-party nominees...
...dictionary, describes one who is "lighthearted," "fickle" or "capricious" and whose views are "transitory or fleeting." Applied to the current mood of the American public, these terms are laughably inaccurate. One can describe the American electorate in 1980 as troubled or conflict-ridden or agitated about what many regard as the unsatisfactory choices that confront them. But this is hardly a fickle or transitory state of mind. And it certainly is not lighthearted...