Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Indeed, if the opposition's most formidable opponent has been the agile President, its worst enemy has been itself. Instead of organizing a campaign, the anti-Marcos movement remains divided between those who would boycott the election, so as not to legitimize what they regard as a mockery of democracy, and those who would contest it, in the belief that they must join the present system in order to beat it. Some 20,000 boycotters, most of them belonging to leftist, issue-oriented groups, last month completed a weeklong, 65-mile march to Manila to protest the elections...
Until only a few years ago, American consumers tended to regard 35-mm cameras as tricky devices loaded with inscrutable dials and knobs. Now they are as much a part of the tourist's gear as a straw hat and Bermuda shorts. The company most responsible for the change is Japan's Canon (1983 revenues: $2.8 billion). In 1976 it brought out a revolutionary model called the AE-1. Containing a built-in microprocessor, the camera made exposure settings a snap. An aggressive ad campaign that used sports stars to tout the AE-l's easy handling...
...result has sometimes been that the President has accepted flawed results in the conduct of foreign policy. The impulse to view the presidency as a public relations opportunity and to regard Government as a campaign for re-election (which, of course, it is, but within limits) distorts balance, frustrates consistency and destroys credibility. This very mischievous force need never have been let loose...
...have looked back into my experiences in an attempt to illustrate the lessons they contained while those lessons are still relevant to the current situation. My frankness may startle, and, at moments, it has been painful to write the truth as I saw it. But in my regard for President Reagan and in my duty to my country I could not do otherwise, and those who read what I have written will make their own judgments according to their own lights...
...alone hadn't the military power or the interrelated diplomatic influence to go further. It was clear that some of my colleagues on the National Security Council were prepared to look beyond Poland, as if it were not in itself an issue of war and peace, and regard it as an opportunity to inflict mortal political, economic and propaganda damage on the U.S.S.R...