Word: regards
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...Communist losses in last year's regional elections partly reflected public reaction to atrocities by ultraleftist terrorists, who regard themselves as Italy's "true" Communists. Renewed outbreaks of terrorist violence are unlikely to help Berlinguer at the polls. Last week, for example, Milan's deputy public prosecutor, Emilio Alessandrini, was assassinated by a group linked to the Red Brigades. He was the third terrorist victim in a month and the 34th in the past 13 months. Protesting his murder, Milan's trade unions called a four-hour work standstill during Alessandrini's funeral...
Hargadon said an increased tendency for other students to regard minority students as "being there by some special preference," is one of the few minor effects of the decision that he has noticed...
...since the 1950s, T.V.A. has had "hardening of the imaginative arteries" as David Lilienthal put it. Especially under Nixon appointee William L. Jenkins, who resigned last May, the agency had become just another power company singlemindedly pursuing energy without regard for human costs. Through its dependence on coal it became a scavenger on the land; through its mania for dam and park building, the T.V.A. dispossessed thousands of people who had lived in the valley for generations. Communities with names like Energy, Wildcat and Turkey have been wiped out. Through its cultivation of nuclear power (it will have seven operating...
TIME seems convinced that Carter has put his presidency on the line with regard to his Middle East peace efforts. Bull-feathers! Even the majority of his critics would acknowledge that whatever takes place between Egypt and Israel, Carter's effort to conclude a peace was courageous and worthwhile. This is one game in which winning isn't necessarily everything; Americans still respect good causes, lost or otherwise...
...increased government benefits. Over the past three years, their restraint helped reduce inflation from 24.2% to about 8% last year. But, with Britain's economy bubbling from an infusion of North Sea oil, the unions feel it is time to recoup the sacrifices of the past. They regard Callaghan's effort to impose a 5% ceiling on settlements as a challenge. If they accept the policy, their members' pay hikes would fall, once again, behind the rate of inflation...