Word: regarded
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...dismay of many educators, the SAT has achieved a statistical majesty similar to the Dow Jones industrial average or the Gross National Product. The public tends to regard the SAT as a single number capable of summing up the health, or lack of it, of the nation's schools...
...instance, as an "empire"--an allusion that even Reagan now finds embarrassing. It endorses the Reagan military buildup, asserting that Americans "knew America's defenses had to be repaired." And it reassures that "Democrats harbor no illusions about arms control." But it does not mention American policies in regard to Nicaragua or South Africa...
...wild swings of public attitudes toward drug use, it is useful to look to the way that alcohol abusers have learned to regard their addiction. They understand that the craving never really disappears; it is merely denied. An alcoholic can stay sober for years, yet he still says, because he knows it to be true, "I am an alcoholic." If the current revulsion against drug abuse does manage to banish dope back into the shadows, society could use a measure of the same honesty and self-awareness. "It seems we forget so easily," says NIDA's Schuster...
...mishandling of Cortez has already overshadowed all the gestures of goodwill exchanged by President Reagan and Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado in Washington three weeks ago. It has also highlighted the dangers that DEA agents face in Mexico, where police officers often regard their undercover allies from the U.S. as meddlesome intruders. Washington, in turn, views many of its local colleagues as potential enemies who have been corrupted by the very criminals they are supposed to be battling. "It's ! gotten a lot worse down there now," says one U.S. law-enforcement official, "because the agents aren...
Vicki Sato '68, a Japanese American and a former Harvard instructor, said that despite her affection for Harvard, during her years at the University, she never felt that an active Asian student community existed. Sato said Asian students need to be more aggressive in that regard. "We're not just passing through providing cultural diversity for others," she said...