Word: regarded
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...community to sever its ties with the club--as the institution has already done--would require individuals to decide for them selves whether Harvard without finals club would be a better place. Ms. Couch and Mr. Eisert are but two who have made their choice in this regard. It is let to the rest of us to make...
...persuades him to tell her story. But Foe keeps emphasizing the wrong themes. Susan rebels and then suffers remorse. "I am growing to understand why you wanted Crusoe to have a musket and be besieged by cannibals," she writes him. "I thought it was a sign you had no regard for the truth. I forgot you are a writer who knows above all how many words can be sucked from a cannibal feast, how few from a woman cowering from the wind...
...gaining momentum. Montana Democrat Max Baucus , plans to introduce, possibly this week, a Senate bill proposing that auctions be tried out in the next three cases in which the U.S. imposes temporary quotas. Many economists, most of whom reject protectionism in general, see quotas as sometimes inevitable and thus regard the auction system as a way for the U.S. to get maximum benefit from them...
...that Judy Blume is writing for grownups, we must regard John Hughes as her successor. His movies, like her young-adult novels, have good qualities. He knows what the teens' Top 40 moral issues are, and he places his stories in palpably realistic contexts. Not only do his kids speak up-to-the-minute adolescent idiom and illustrate the latest dress code perfectly, they attend clangorously class-conscious public high schools, whose unexamined values the protagonists must always challenge -- and defeat...
Some see it as a way of filling the ranks of the military at a time when the pool of new 18-year-olds is shrinking. Others regard it primarily as a way to foster a work ethic while meeting the nation's domestic needs: restoring parks, cleaning up inner cities, repairing roads, caring for the elderly, tutoring children. Proponents of the idea still disagree as to what extent the program should be mandatory or voluntary. Yet there is growing talk these days among politicians of various stripes about instituting in the U.S. some form of national service, a program...