Word: regardless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Really, the last two outings have been the first time the last two years I've been flat," he continued. "I was overdue. Regardless of the sport or how you're pitching, you have to get a little stale period. But it's out of my system. I don't think I'll ever pitch back-to-back games like that again in my life...
...think that academic freedom is best preserved if we shrink from exercising it. I do not think academic freedom is best preserved if we deny the social consequences of our investment policies. I would have thought that academic freedom meant finding and speaking and acting the truth regardless of the consequences. I would have thought that in this case. Harvard ought to act on the merits of the case, without fear of retaliation. I would have thought that academic freedom would mean that the University would throw its considerable weight as an investor, as a leader of public opinion, into...
After the Three Mile Island accident [April 9], I intend to vote against any politicians who say "Maybe" to nuclear power, regardless of their opinions on all other matters. What good is a chicken in every pot if the broth is radioactive...
...held in contempt. Fines of $25,000 to $50,000 would have been levied every day. In the book's most belligerent section, the judge wishes that Nixon had indeed been indicted and gone to trial. If convicted in Sirica's court, he would have been sentenced to jail, regardless of the psychological consequences to the country. The judge, whose penchant for stiff sentences earned him the sobriquet "Maximum John," also regrets that he had to rule against public release of the White House tapes. They were, he concludes, "the most intimate and most damning conversations conducted in the Nixon...
...find one's inner guru. "He is like an ice cube in a cooling drink. He cools your consciousness and then disappears," Chitrabhanu writes. One's devotion belongs to oneself, not to any teacher. Gurus--the word means "dispeller of ignorance and bringer of light"--can be anyone, regardless of race or sex, who helps one dispel the darkness and ignorance of his life...