Word: regretable
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...panic. I don't have the time." To make her task even more unaccustomed, she chose to play the spinsterish New Englander, Hannah, and turned down the saucier part of Maxine, the innkeeper. Does she miss those earlier seductive roles? "Time has passed," she says, seemingly without regret...
Another choice, the garlic shrimp and oyster pasta, properly merits a Surgeon General's warning. We could not palate a full serving of this pungent and powerful dish; the few who do probably regret it afterwards...
...contrast with these affirmative measures, merely selling Harvard's stock in all American companies doing business in South Africa would be a misguided response that we would eventually regret. In particular cases, of course, we may disagree so deeply with a firm's behavior that we no longer wish to be associated with it through stock ownership. As previously mentioned, we have recently sold the stock of two firms that have been intransigent in responding to our inquiries about their employment practices. (We sold the shares of another firm earlier this year on similar grounds.) We are also about...
...reaction, a mixture of sorrow, regret and anger, followed disclosures in a federal court in Pittsburgh last week that at least l3 major league baseball players had been habitual users of cocaine. The drug abuse itself came as no surprise. Multiple criminal investigations have focused attention on the problem since 1983, when four Kansas City Royals, including a former American League batting champion (Willie Wilson) and a once sensational pitcher (Vida Blue), were sent to prison for cocaine use and other players were implicated but not prosecuted. The impact of last week's disclosures stemmed from the detailed, often poignant...
...have seen fairly broad development of such cooperation in the energy field, including nuclear power, in chemistry, space research, cardiology and other fields. The benefit was mutual, and U.S. scientists are well aware of it. This cooperation has by now come to naught. We regret it, but let me assure you that we will survive because we have first-class science of our own and because the U.S. is far from having a monopoly on scientific ; and technological achievements...