Word: regardless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that unlikely day, demands for sweeping changes in the nation's auto insurance system are likely to grow. One proposal, understandably opposed by trial lawyers, is to do away with the "fault principle" in most auto accidents-which means that the insurer would pay off its own policyholder, regardless of who was to blame. Advocates of this plan contend that it would cut costs by ending interminable haggling over claims. At the same time, it would reduce the backlog of cases which is clogging the nation's court calendars...
...Embassy residence with reporters and businessmen, Nixon forgot the problems of Latin America long enough to offer an unstartling prediction about 1968: "There will probably be five candidates: Romney, Rockefeller, Percy, Reagan and myself. Two will probably fall by the wayside in the primaries." But, he also observed diplomatically, "regardless of who wins the election, there will only be one winner: Latin America." That said, Dick Nixon packed his bags once more and headed for Brazil and Mexico...
Obvious Needs. It would thus have seemed natural for the newly empowered Reagan to whoop up opposition to Kuchel in next year's primary. However, both men are finding that, regardless of past reasons for continuing the feud, political considerations provide more cogent motives for cooling...
With its imprint being available regardless of an author's university affiliation, the Press is not so much an arm of Harvard as a parasite. But if there are two equally good works and only one can be published, and one of them is by a Harvard author, that one will be chosen, Wilson says. And the Press publishes numerous works for such Harvard organizations as the Russian Research Center and the Harvard-Yenching Institute...
...regents are nominated by political parties, elected directly by voters for eight-year terms. University of Minnesota regents are elected by the state legislature for six years. The University of Alabama board selects its own new members for twelve years. Inevitably, the new regent takes years to get oriented. "Regardless of how much you study, you never get the grasp of a university the way you would of your own business," concedes Wisconsin Regent Charles D. Gelatt...