Word: regardless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...professors have lost tenure and may be fired by government decree. As the underground resistance movement grows, more and more of their students are arrested and disappear. Rumor has it that a certain specified number of military officers' sons and daughters will henceforth be admitted to the University automatically, regardless of their scores on the stiff admissions rest. This should ensure the presence of a vigilant and militant pro-government faction in the University and, ultimately, a reactionary educated group to take power in the government...
...Norfolk & Western, which wants to hold off acquisition of the three until it has merged with the C. & O.-B. & O., has 15 days to appeal to the Supreme Court. N. & W. President Herman Pevler was noncommittal last week, but his railroad will probably appeal. If it does, regardless of the outcome, another six months may pass before the Penn Central merger can go through...
...kibbutz parents have followed Nehemiah's lead with their offspring. If they did, it would not matter much to the country, since the kibbutz population is only three or four per cent of Israel's total. And many kibbutz children are demanding education, regardless of their parents' preferences...
...domestic criticism of the war stems from ignorance," Huntington adds, admitting that "some of it is due to the Administration's failure to explain its policies." Regardless of the strategic importance of South Vietnam, Huntington comments, American success there has become vital for domestic stability. Withdrawal now, he says, would be followed by "an incredibly strong rightist reaction that would make McCarthyism look like pink...
...violence abroad and the violence at home: all agree that these are the problems, that they are somehow interconnected, and that in combination they have the potential for polarizing then fracturing American society. These would be acknowledged as problems by any group, regardless of its political views or its power to further them. But is is an essential problem of American liberals because more than anyone else it is they who have been in office, in power at the time of, and in large measure presided over the onset both of the war in Vietnam and the violence in American...