Word: regards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some State Department careerists began to regard Young as an unguided missile in January when he declared that the Cubans brought "a certain stability and order" to Angola. Later he explained that he had only meant that they brought some needed services, such as medical and technical help...
...does not trouble me. I agree with the President that you do not compromise on what you regard as a basic American position in order to improve the chances of arms control. Either the SALT negotiations are going to be considered to be in the interests of both sides, or they are not. If they are not, you are not going to get a decent deal...
...Port Authority's verdict could seal the fate of the 1,400-m.p.h. SST, which the French and British regard as a historic technological triumph. One French aviation expert warns that rejection by New York "would kill the Concorde." Concerned that the Port Authority was about to do just that, French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing phoned President Carter last week to warn that banning Concorde could "provoke a very grave crisis in French-American relations...
...much louder has yet to be definitively answered. Since May 1976 the Federal Aviation Administration has been monitoring Concorde flights in and out of Washington's John Foster Dulles airport. The findings so far: the plane's noise level has almost always been below what most experts regard as the threshold of aural pain. Many of the airport's neighbors have even phoned in complaints about the Concorde when the offending craft has actually been a distinctly subsonic DC-9. In contrast to the high-pitched whine of a Boeing 707 or 747, the Concorde produces...
...been taking away from him. Using their financial resources and, according to the U.F.W., "goon squads," the Teamsters had already persuaded more than 50,000 of California's 250,000 agricultural workers to join them rather than the U.F.W. Chavez, who is better at persuading liberals to regard boycotting grapes and lettuce as a holy cause than he is at administering union services or efficiently parceling out jobs, had seen the membership of his union dwindle from a high of more than 60,000 in 1972 to a low of 5,000 in 1974 (current membership...