Word: regardless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...regardless of what the Justice Department finally decides to do on the Helms-ITT investigation, the mere fact of the probe has adversely affected the involved principals. Helms resigned as ambassador to Iran last November upon being formally notified that he had become a major target in the investigation. And ITT headquarters in New York announced in May that Geneen would officer at the end of this year, thus ending Geneen's 18-year autocratic rule of the corporation, whose phenomenal expansion during the 1960s he personally planned and closely supervised...
...proclamation that the resident population of a House may not fall below 87 per cent of the number of students assigned to it during the housing lottery. Spence may change this figure slightly when final data on the number of students who take leaves of absence become available. But regardless of the number she eventually chooses, in effect the floor or House populations will provide a limit on the number of people who can leave the Quad...
...vote of confidence in the cosmos." It may be easy to decry the self-indulgent sensualism in which Crosby ultimately gloried. Yet one cannot avoid placing some of the blame on the society into which he was born. Crosby was childish. He did not even write good poetry. But regardless of the selfdelusion he practiced, Crosby mirrored accurately a society as hypocritical as he was pretentious. Unwittingly he copies the excesses of a society he despises while convinced that he exemplifies its literary genius...
...headed monsters, violinists with goats' heads and a host of other mythological figures in bizarre and often sinister landscapes. He draws heavily on recollections of his childhood in Russia and the folk tales of that country. And yet viewing these prints one feels an uncanny sense of deja vu regardless of nationality--it is as if Chagall had painted what he could remember of a dream of his, and it is the kind we have all had occasionally. It is one of those dreams where birds are bigger than donkeys and people...
...lashed out against "capitalist exploitation," imperialism and the U.S. involvement in Viet Nam, today's German terrorists seem strikingly apolitical. In the coffeehouses of university towns, they are called Spontis-for spontaneous radicals who do not bother with ideology but simply want to destroy the present system, regardless of the consequences. "It's a bit frightening," observes a security officer from a Western country who serves as a liaison in Bonn. "When we kick down doors looking for these people at home, we find almost always tons of literature-wall-to-wall Marx and Marcuse. But here, they...