Word: regarding
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While a Senate committee last week approved legislation that would authorize the FTC to regulate the profiling of children, the agency seems willing to let the industry clean up its own act with regard to adults. Enter TRUSTe, a nonprofit group that has persuaded 270 of the Web's most popular sites to post and abide by statements telling what data they collect from visitors, how they use that data and how visitors can restrict that use. Web leaders such as America Online, Microsoft and Netscape plan an announcement this Wednesday to address privacy concerns...
Similarly, this year's playoff results do not approach the woefulness of the sweeps in 1988 and 1990. Note: I regard the 1995 season, in which the Sox were swept in three games by the Tribe, as a sacred, marvelous aberration, a magnificent stardust leap from oblivion to glory. Hence, I will generally refrain from discussing it here...
...second fear is that the Long Term Capital bailout could encourage banks to make still more risky loans, confident that the government won't let them get into trouble. In this regard, the rescue was rich in irony: it came as the Senate passed a bill that would make it harder for ordinary citizens to seek bankruptcy-court protection from banks and other creditors...
...know I carry importance not only because I see it in myself, but because it is evident in the eyes of others. Students look to me as a leader and purveyor of wisdom; professors regard with me awe. I'll never forget how Dean Epps looked at me as the Yard grounds crew took down my toilet paper installation hours before Commencement. "What you did here today is indescribable", he said. "I don't even know what to say". He had a note of reverence in his voice he must reserve only for heads of state and geniuses...
...keep personal jockeying from interfering with social functions that we believe should be impartial and impersonal. And I find it troubling that Harvard, as a collective culture, is teaching its students not to refine and improve the fairness of the systems they come into contact with, but rather to regard these systems as obstacles in the way of their own personal fulfillment...