Word: regardless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...role in South Viet Nam's future political life, brought an angry rebuttal from the Administration; today some such arrangement seems likely if a settlement is to be negotiated. Despite the rift with the White House, Kennedy insisted that he had no 1968 ambitions; that he would support Johnson regardless of the war. He maintained this posture even after Eugene McCarthy challenged Johnson last fall on grounds virtually indistinguishable from Kennedy's. It was then that Kennedy felt a double crunch, from within and from without. To run and lose would be to risk his entire political career. To remain...
...most serious problems respecting the education of faculty children, below the college level, appear to arise in the secondary school years. The Committee recommends that the interest-free loan program for undergraduate and graduate study of faculty children, regardless of their parents' domicile, be extended to educational expenses of the secondary school years with a corresponding increase in the maximum loan permitted. This arrangement would also facilitate a greater degree of freedom to faculty families in planning financing for the education of children...
...purpose of federation was to create a new and distinctive university, not a carbon copy of any existing institution regardless of its reputation. We are seeking to improve the entire university qualitatively, using our present strengths as a foundation...
...significance of Indiana, from Kennedy's viewpoint, was not that it demonstrated overwhelming strength or that it promised victory at the Chicago convention; it did neither. Rather, it demonstrated his survival power in hostile territory. Uncommitted party leaders in such large states as Illinois and Michigan, regardless of their personal feelings toward Kennedy, must respect a candidate who fights hard and pulls well in urban areas. Those who might have been tempted to come out soon for Humphrey now have an excuse to wait and see. Indiana also gave Kennedy a nudge in the right direction for this week...
...position twelve and thirteen in the fourteen-horse field, and the handicap of an outside post is much greater to a speed horse, who will fight for the lead around the first turn, than to a horse like Dancer's Image who will be dropped back along the rail regardless of position. Forward Pass' connections calculate that the post position cost him two lengths. He lost by a length and a half...