Word: regardless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...believe that getting "good results" when taking action is an admirable goal, but that, in some circumstances, there is an absolute moral imperative to take action that may or may not produce "good results." If there has ever been such a time for Americans, it is surely now. Regardless of your immediate political position on Vietnam (short of unqualified support for the containment of Asian Communism by "any means necessary"), you must admit that the results of our actions have been, in practice, inadvertent genocide. Our original goals may have been decent, although support of an oligarchic dictator is hardly...
...statement, but he gives no evidence to back the threat. Scholarship money is still being given at Boston University, which made ROTC non-credit last year, and Captain Robert Moriarity, director of Naval ROTC at Harvard has told the HUC that scholarships in that program would most likely continue regardless of its status...
...underlying issue in this controversy should not be race, but academic freedom. The freedom to express one's views is fundamental to any university. Except when such views are directly related to a university official's responsibilities, this freedom of expression must always be regarded as absolute, regardless of the unpleasant consequences it may occasionally incur...
...South is a Democratic disaster area, with conservatism the dominant motif. Regardless of his warm reception in North Carolina, Humphrey has lost even some moderate Southern leaders who helped nominate him. The urban machines in the North have been decaying for years, and Johnson has done nothing to reverse that trend. Working-class families grown affluent because of general prosperity are defecting to Nixon and Wallace. Negroes, while generally loyal, are distracted by the anti-Establishment mood of their militant elements and by grief over the loss of their favorite, Robert Kennedy. Some black voters may sit out the election...
There is no debate over the popularity of house courses with students. But at least for some members of the Committee on General Education, the enthusiasm of students being taught is not an adequate measure of the success of an academic innovation. House courses "are a policy issue regardless of whether students like them," Wilcox says, and in at least five ways, they have been accused of being bad academic policy...