Word: regretable
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...Brigitte Steimen, director of Swiss Labor Assistance. "Being poor is seen as one's own fault for not working hard enough." Diaz, who puts in 40 hours a week, has a healthy work ethic. But she says she is "too embarrassed to ask for handouts." Nevertheless, she doesn't regret emigrating to Switzerland: "It's not easy, but I would rather be poor here than in Portugal...
...sort of regret not taking it as a freshman. I think I would have got more out of it if I had,” he says...
...attacks—that it is instructive to investigate the origins of the phrase. The first recorded use of “moment of silence,” the Oxford English Dictionary notes, was in 1942, when the American Sociological Review resolved to “express our regret and honor their memory by rising and preserving a moment of silence.” Whose memory, the venerable OED doesn’t say; there are space constraints. But clearly, the phrase came into vogue when school prayer was disallowed; the OED’s next citation is from...
...Brattle. This whole vocabulary of sounds and images—all I can do with it is feel my way around it blindly. It’s really important for understanding what goes on not only in entertainment but also for film as a modern literature. I really regret that I didn’t learn a non-Western language. I don’t really understand any of the conversations about antioxidants, the new nutritional theories that everyone is talking about. How the human body actually works. I know there are carbohydrates, fats and proteins, but I don?...
...genocide in Rwanda through police-keeping action, that policy would have been spat upon as “unilateral.” It would have been the right thing to do, and our unwillingness to do it when the international community failed to act is something we should all regret...