Word: regarded
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...University, an expert in German history and her Ph.D thesis adviser, "is a real contribution to the understanding of German social democracy and German social history in general." Her book, based on the thesis, is being published by the Cambridge University Press. Stern added that he had the "highest regard for her as a scholar and a person...
...votes, he cannot get the money. Both Kennedy and Connally raised large war chests (as of the end of January, $6.1 million by Kennedy, $10 million by Connally). But when they faltered in the polls and initial caucuses, their contributions fell off. Since they had spent lavishly without much regard for the future, they were in trouble. In contrast, donations to George Bush soared after he won the Iowa caucuses. People voted with their pocketbooks early in the presidential race...
...bloody-minded military officers which mounted an horrific reign of terror against the Chilean people (in summer 1973, the conservative Chilean daily El Mercurio called for an "Indonesian solution" to Chile's political conflicts--that is very nearly what Chile got), and which today rules without the slightest regard for the institutional and legal safeguards of civilized and liberal nations. This clique even sent its secret police in September 1976 to Washington, D.C., a city dedicated to political decency, in order to arrange for the assassination of a prominent Chilean exile and his American assistant, this only a few hundred...
Customarily, writers of thrillers take themselves seriously and their public lightly. In Who's on First the fables are turned. The author's vocabulary and wit show a high regard for his audience. It is William F. Buckley whom he takes humorously. And so, in the end, must the reader. -Peter Stoler
...wish to be misunderstood. I am not saying that the Soviet High Command is plotting a surprise nuclear attack on the United States or its allies. The Soviet leadership is undoubtedly well aware of the risks and consequences of nuclear war. What I am saying is that they regard a general war to be possible, and have concluded that in such a war nuclear weapons will decide the issue. This being the case, they draw the further inference that the side that has prepared itself most thoroughly for fighting a nuclear war, both offensively and defensively, stands a better chance...