Word: regarder
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...sell the very agricultural chemicals farmers are spraying on their fields. So while many farmers have embraced such crops as Monsanto's Roundup Ready soybeans, with their genetically engineered resistance to Monsanto's Roundup-brand herbicide, that let them spray weed killer without harming crops, consumers have come to regard such things with mounting suspicion. Why resort to a strange new technology that might harm the biosphere, they ask, when the benefits of doing so seem small...
...from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their own regard to their own interest. We address ourselves not to their humanity but to their self-love. --Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations...
Comedy, like drawing with cheese or playing the zither, is essentially an outsider art. It is best practiced by those who feel undernourished by human regard. This would include such admiration-impoverished individuals as a skinny, neurotic young Woody Allen; a homely, heavy Roseanne; a plain-weird Andy Kaufman and a vast number of Canadians. Nothing kills comedy quicker than acceptance...
...small-business sector over the past eight years by reducing bank regulation and lowering interest rates, so it's easier to get bank loans. Historically, raising money has been the biggest hurdle for small businesses in this country. The Republicans don't have a good track record in this regard. They have a tighter focus on fiscal restraint...
Anytime someone is allowed to defame any category of people, whether by description or depiction, those people can become regarded as less than human. In studies, the objects of such discrimination tend to be viewed as less important as individuals and less deserving of a place in our society. What does it matter if hurt or harm comes to such people, such thinking goes; they're not as important as the rest of us, and consequently less worthy of our regard and concern. This erosion of mutual respect is just that: a mutual loss...