Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...almost every speech I give, I say this ((Conservative)) Party and these people are pro-American, and before I finish the sentence a round of applause breaks out. People are enormously appreciative of the generosity of the American people and of their fundamental love of liberty. I tend to regard the United States as Europe on the other side of the Atlantic, which of course is really very much what...
...prophecy proved accurate. Last week Thatcher's Tory Party was resoundingly returned to office, although with a reduced majority. She thus became the first Prime Minister in modern British political history to win three successive general elections. The country's 43.7 million voters, who regard her iron-willed leadership with a mixture of admiration and anxiety, gave the Conservatives a 101-seat majority in the 650-member House of Commons, 43 fewer than the party had won in the 1983 elections. But that was more than sufficient for Thatcher to pursue her "unfinished revolution" in reshaping the political, economic...
...century, the Chinese Communists have condemned the art as "superstition," severely limiting its practice on the mainland. That may yet undermine China's attempt to assimilate the capitalist spirits of Hong Kong, which is scheduled to come under Peking's control in 1997. Thus local businessmen and ordinary citizens regard the Bank of China's feng shui dilemma with a polite silence, avoiding any embarrassment to the People's Republic. Meanwhile, as work proceeds on the unlucky building, the Communists have refrained from commenting on its future. The dragons are not talking either...
...Believers, a movie doing its best to defy description at any length, has some potential in this regard. It posits a Caribbean voodoo cult that offers unlimited worldly power to people willing to sacrifice their young sons in its rituals. And it brings a newly widowed father (Martin Sheen) and his son (Harley Cross) into menacing proximity with the evildoers. A well-made horror film would focus tightly on the son's menaced innocence and force us to share the father's fears as the portents of doom gather about him, his ferocity when at last he must defend...
...realized that I was living under the myth of infallibility with regard to Jack [Barnaby] and Henry Cowles," Fish said. "I had ideas of my own, especially about conditioning, training, and body movement--things Jack never worried too much about...