Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...above the law. It felt justified illegally selling arms to Iran while prosecuting private citizens for doing the same. It aided the Contras in violation of acts of Congress and ignored laws requiring that Congress be notified of covert intelligence operations. This single-minded pursuit of private ends without regard for legitimate means is worse than arrogant; it is a violation of trust. No one is above the law; least of all the chief executive charged with defending...
...highly regarded Washington securities lawyer who is familiar with the Boesky case probably speaks truly when he observes that "we may well get a whole string of new laws or regulations. Whether they're fundamental changes, however, depends on whether the public will care enough to push for them." In that regard, the widening stain surrounding Ivan Boesky may be serving a perverse kind of service to the integrity of the marketplace. If the shock and dismay engendered by his case are bolstered by further disclosures, popular indignation could guarantee a regulatory shakeup. It may be that further fallout resulting...
Senator Durenberger has two pieces of advice: "It is terribly important that the President begin anew his policy with regard to the Middle East and Iran. It is also very important that this particular President begin anew his relationship with the Congress." Robert Dole, the Republican leader, suggests that Reagan should simply concede he made a mistake. Those suggestions, however, assume that Reagan is ready to admit that the arms sales to Iran were a blunder. And the President so far is one of the few people left in Washington who will not concede any such thing...
...United States cannot regard the colonization of space as an international competition, according to Field. "We should not race anyone anywhere. We should not make a dash as we did to the North Pole, the South Pole or the Moon. We should not have another Apollo-like program...
...taken two centuries -- and, now, 100 elections -- to reach the point where individual Americans were so willing to follow their own judgment politically and make their decision at the polls without regard to party," says Political Historian Horace Busby. "Such voter judgment serves notice that the parties must rely on performance rather than prejudice, habit or family tradition to hold their position in the public arena...