Word: regarding
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...recognize that apartheid causes political strains. As a result, we have had a long policy of restraint with regard to loans to South Africa," Jim Langston, senior vice president in charge of social policy for Bank of America, said last night...
Harvard's record with regard to Black Studies is a shabby history of hypocrisy and paternalism in hiring tenured faculty for the department. Between 1968 and 1971 on average one black professor was tenured each year, but in the cooled-off political climate following 1971 Harvard has felt obliged to tenure only one additional black professor (Eileen Southern). And out of this total of five, Afro has been given only one and a half. In the dastardly rejection of the eminently qualified and world-renowned African scholar E. Isaacs, who taught for six years (including half of all students taking...
Kennedy demanded that the weapons and installations be dismantled and removed from Cuba under the supervision of U.N. on-site observers. In what seemed to be a thinly veiled ultimatum to the Soviets, Kennedy added: "It shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba against any nation in the Western Hemisphere as an attack by the Soviet Union on the United States requiring a full retaliatory response on the Soviet Union." The next day, the Organization of American States gave its unanimous backing to the U.S. position. To many, the world appeared...
Carter may not even be able to stimulate the economy when he wants to; the choice is not entirely his. Many members of Congress continue to regard inflation as enemy number one. Says Bob Giaimo, chairman of the House Budget Committee: "Some Democrats are talking about incentives and stimulants. I don't think they're reading the tea leaves right." Carter may also find the Federal Reserve balkier than before. Its new chairman, Paul Volcker, is a more determined inflation fighter than his predecessor, William Miller, who is now Treasury Secretary...
Despite the reverence in which he is held, the Dalai Lama does not regard himself as a god. "I am a human being: a Buddhist monk," he says. But he is the reincarnation of his predecessor and became Dalai Lama in the traditional way. At the age of two, he was found in a peasant's hut in Taktser after a long search during which monks used divinations and sought miraculous signs to reveal his whereabouts. They confirmed their discovery of reincarnation by having the child identify objects associated with his predecessor. All that traditional procedure could disappear...