Word: regardless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many Israelis think it is high time the Defense Army (regardless of what images it might evoke) and indeed it would be more appropriate. Aside from a standing army of some 50,000 troops, the Israelis depend on their Reservists who have had two years of active military duty and one month of training a year thereafter. But if the bulk of the Israeli army is made up of Reservists, there can be no doubt that much of their success must be attributed to a resourceful officers corps which at all times has detailed plans for the lightning destruction...
...five panelists at the International Seminar's open forum on European socialism, Radice said that society's decision-makers take decisions without reference to those who are affected by their decisions. This produces an alienation, regardless of who is in power, since the people feel they are on the receiving end of every decision, he said...
...ones who staunchly support the funding of Senator Percy's plan to provide below-market interest-rate loans to low-moderate income families purchasing homes. In other words, they argue that rent supplements are too costly, but that Percy's plan--their own Republican proposal--is not. Regardless of the merits of the Percy proposal, the use of it as a substitute for rent supplements is outrageous. Supplements aid the very poor, while the Percy bill would help only those people who could show enough income stability to maintain payments on their homes...
...Aspirin is just plain aspirin and nothing else," says Wisconsin's Senator Gaylord Nelson. It is just that, he claims, regardless of how much it costs and whether it carries a famous brand name. Nelson goes further: he believes that prescription drugs for serious illnesses should be dispensed, not under a manufacturer's trademark name, but under the "generic" (common chemical) name, which usually carries a lower price tag. Whether generic and brand-name drugs are really medically equivalent has been debated before Nelson's Senate Monopoly Subcommittee for almost two months now. So far, no witness...
...loafing (which, statistics show, almost non one does--or at least not without listing it under "travel.") It keeps you away from home but lets you live in a sociable place where the friends--and the action--are familiar. Taking a course or two makes the summer respectable, regardless of whatever else keeps you in Cambridge...