Word: regardless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ethnic resistance to Carter, however, may well turn out to be an overexaggerated fear; in the end, most ethnics will probably stay in the Democratic fold. Predicted Sal Venezia, a city official in Catholic East Boston: "We've had enough of Republicans, regardless of who the Democratic nominee is." Added Joseph Mayer, a Philadelphia plumber: "This Southern Baptist thing is overblown. Some of my best customers are Baptists." But Carter is taking no chances. He plans to take steps to smooth over relations with the church hierarchy and hopes to improve his showing among urban Catholics and ethnics by stressing...
...continual struggle of Americans for the implementation of these principles within America, regardless of race or economic status, is a matter of history and contemporary politics. Much progress has been made over the past 200 years. In particular the Federal Government is now committed to fighting racial discrimination within the U.S. by laws, administrative acts and education. This we recognize; it is vital to the respect accorded to America...
...claiming to represent the counter-cultural Detroit Sun, seemed to be sporting bogus accreditations. I can see how a restrictive pass system may seem reasonable to those giving out the credentials. The DNC can risk offending some college reporters who have two months to cool off before they file. Regardless of the satisfaction derived from getting in, however, it will be a long time before I forget hearing that nominating roll call filter up seven levels to the balcony where I was waiting 25 deep to get a 20-minute pass...
...ended when the Justices voted seven to two that capital punishment under certain conditions is still perfectly constitutional. Again, Stewart's was a critical voice as he said for the court: "We hold that the death penalty is not a form of punishment that may never be imposed, regardless of the circumstances of the offense, regardless of the character of the offender and regardless of the procedure followed in reaching the decision...
...which our country is wrong, not because we are more arrogant than other people, but because our country's rightness is our soil, our home. One loves one's birthplace or one's parents because they are one's birthplace or one's parents, regardless of whether the place is especially attractive or the parents especially worthy. One loves them because they exist. America demands to be loved not because it is, but for what it is-and not only for what it is, but for what it does. By its own insistence, to love...