Word: regards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stock market reacted to all these uncertainties in predictable fashion: it sank. The Dow Jones industrial average, the market's most widely watched barometer, plunged dizzily to 800.85, its lowest level in two years. The drop is particularly unsettling because investors regard the 800 level as a psychological barrier; once it is breached, they fear an even steeper fall. By week's end the market had recovered slightly, to a closing Dow average of 809.94. Nonetheless, since New Year's Eve the Dow has plummeted 194.71 points, an astonishing slide. Clearly the nosediving stock market is trying...
...years intelligence operatives in Moscow and Washington have tended to regard "peaceful coexistence," and more recently detente, as a continuation of the cold war by other means. Spies have used the proliferation of official contacts between East and West to move back and forth, and counterspies have reacted accordingly. Ever since a Soviet-American student exchange program was established in 1958, the FBI, which is responsible for counterespionage in the U.S., has been on the lookout for agents of the Soviet secret police, or KGB, operating undercover as visiting students and scholars...
...each. What continues to puzzle police is why the kidnapers would demand payment in a denomination of bills that is 1) hard to assemble in large quantities even at banks, and 2) easily traceable (the police have the serial numbers of all the bills). Thus, while the cops regard the ransom payment as a private business transaction, they do not plan to mark the Caransa case closed until those new mysteries are solved...
...city still has what one teacher describes, in a reference to traditional ethnic regard for education as the door to upward mobility, as "enough of a foreign element to insist on good education." The school on the hill is the pride of the community...
...JUSTICE DEPARTMENT had come to regard the Richard Helms affair with all the warmth that a ship's captain reserves for a school of barnacles firmly attached to a vessel's hull: a nuisance--if a major one--that would pop into public view every so often, only to submerge once again below the Koreagate and Bert Lance headlines...