Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first process is the peace-making process, both with regard to the bilateral Egyptian-Israeli aspect as well as the inter-Arab, anti-Egyptian reaction which followed President Sadat's initiative, the Camp David agreements and the Peace Treaty. The other process is that of cultural, political, and social revolution and transition progressively sweeping almost all Middle Eastern countries. It is a process characterized by instability. Of course the most dramatic recent event was the fall of the Shah's regime in Iran and the establishment of a new, radical fanatic Islamic society...
Brown's aides concede that their candidate's poor performance results from what they anti-septically term an "image problem." Pollster Lou Harris and his nationwide interviews show voters regard Brown as "superficial", "opportunistic," "unreliable," and "flaky." Americans perceive Brown, despite his mainstream politics, as so far beyond the bounds of the civic religion that he could never be nominated, let alone elected. Recent events in California--the murder of two public officials in San Francisco cult in Guyana--have made the public far less indulgent of the stereotype of western eccentricity that Brown epitomizes...
...With only four months left before expiration of the May deadline for a Palestinian autonomy plan, which Cairo and Jerusalem accepted in principle at Camp David, the Carter Administration has been anxious to speed up the pace of the negotiations. Reason: Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates regard the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza as a more troublesome source of Middle East instability than Soviet expansionism...
...date, the market's big spenders have been cash-rich institutions such as pension funds and the trust departments of banks. More and more their managers are coming to regard stocks as good long-term bets. For one thing, at their present depressed values, at least some blue-chip companies are paying dividends of anywhere from 7% to 10%, making them increasingly competitive with top-quality bonds; utility stocks are offering yields of up to 12%, neck and neck with the money-market funds themselves...
There are doubtless profound cultural reasons for such anger: the aggressive self-regard of the era now perhaps passing, the centrifugal individualism, the loss of authority, the sense of alienation from "the System," a precipitous disenchantment that tended to discredit all rules, including those of social behavior. It is possible that the price of a certain amount of personal liberty is excess and mess, all the frictions and bad smells generated by social change and people exercising their constitutional rights. Jefferson had an idea that democracy should be genteel, but it did not work out that way. And today, there...