Word: regarded
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Other detractors regard Feinstein's attention to detail as bordering on the obsessive and claim that the city would benefit if she delegated more authority. A close aide to Feinstein grouses that she edits correspondence written over her name so closely that "you could write a novel in the time it takes to write a letter...
Thus most observers regard the dalliance with Isabel as a good move for Alfonsín. "Alfonsín can't lose," explains a senior diplomat in Buenos Aires. "If the unity approach works, he will have six to nine months of discussion rather than combat. If it doesn't work out, he will have an advantage because it could serve to split the opposition even further, and he can blame future failures on the Perónists...
Like many combat veterans, Fuller rejects the idea of any glory attached to war. "We were just doing our job," he likes to say. At Omaha, nonetheless, Fuller won a Silver Star for an act that he refuses to regard as particularly heroic. Ripped by machine-gun and artillery fire as they hit the beach, the Americans lay flat in the shallow water, or painfully dragged themselves up the sand despite being wounded. Fuller was hugging the ground when an officer crawled over and ordered him to find Regimental Commander Colonel George A. Taylor and tell him that demolition teams...
...Antioch College, recognizing that students now try to cut costs by attending college closer to home, is offering a $1,000 tuition rebate to any Ohio resident who qualifies for admission this year. Nearly 60% of colleges and universities today give financial aid to top students without regard to need. Southern Methodist University offers four years of free tuition (value: $30,000) to students who meet a series of criteria, including SAT scores of 1320 or higher. Trinity University in San Antonio offers as much as $20,000 over four years to National Merit scholars. Trinity attracted ten finalists...
There are many issues, e.g. the manufacture of nuclear weapons, on which good people will disagree. Apartheid--to members of this University--is not such an issue. It is unique. Virtually all regard it as an offense against moral truth. Our response to apartheid therefore does not set a precedent. It seems to us unlikely that any other evil in the world could at present rally such uniquely universal abhorrence with in the University or require such a unique response...