Word: regarding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good companies cheap and sticking with them long-term, with the added fillip of using borrowed money to maximize returns. Right now he is margined up to his Adam's apple, being just about the only person in the house who still thinks the market's heading up. People regard him with a fascination and solicitude otherwise reserved for a condemned man on the gallows. "It will happen, it will happen, it will happen," a short man with a German accent warns him, "but this time it won't be the Fed, it will be the Japanese stock market...
Nonetheless, the president's recent appointment of Professor of Government Robert D. Putnam--a highly respected political scholar praised for his integrity--as the school's new dean, is a sign that Bok truly wants the Kennedy School, which many regard as his personal legacy, to rededicate itself to its original mission. Putnam has repeatedly said as dean he will be dedicated to "rekindling that spirit of public service." Let's hope the school under its new leadership will come to live up to its true mission...
...vast rain forest's gold and minerals, oil and gas, hardwoods and cattle ranges. The great push to settle and industrialize the Amazon has been propelled in part by the government's determination to prevent neighboring countries and multinational corporations from making off with the riches that Brazilians regard as their national patrimony. Despite the precautions, however, the dreaded foreign invasion has finally come. Its name: environmentalism...
...Gorbachev added, "We do not regard our approaches and solutions as some universal prescription for all. On the contrary, problems may be similar but each party solves them in its own way, guided by its own notions and the specific features of its country...
...Flynn campaigned for Harold Washington, and I certainly was pleased to see that, but his effects in regard to Richard Daley seem to be a step backwards," Boston City Councillor Charles Yancey said...