Word: regretable
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...trade protectionism. If Presidents are judged by what they achieved as measured against their stated objectives, says Crane, then James K. Polk, who vowed to acquire California, settle the Oregon dispute and reduce tariffs, leads all the rest. Polk also possessed the ability to abandon power without regret. He quit when he said he would-after one term...
...week, at his retirement villa outside Rome, the author who came in from the cold said with a philosophic shrug: "I am no longer in the limelight, the airline no longer gives me free tickets, and many of my old friends don't know me any more. But I regret nothing...
...have a point. Though the court last week upheld Nannen, it took the unusual step of expressing "regret" that the complaint had to be rejected and encouraged the feminists to "work toward a true" portrayal of women. The losing plaintiffs could also take heart from a comment in the Stuttgarter Zeitung that the decision was a "boxing on the ears [for]all those?especially men?who have shoved women into a dubious corner and defamed them...
...author's greatest regret was his marriage. The disastrous union had taken place half a century before, to a woman he felt had tricked him into an alliance that violated his basically homosexual nature. "You see, I was a quarter normal and three-quarters queer, but I tried to persuade myself it was the other way round. That was my greatest mistake. It flattered me that Syrie should throw herself at my feet. She told me that she cared for me more than anyone else in the world ... I was so vain and stupid I believed...
...recreated that role here, this time with a Jewish accent rather than a Hungarian one. As Esdras, the aging, protective father, he rages and coddles, all with a sense of powerlessness and imminent death. David Eddy returns to the Harvard stage as Carr, Milo's chum, and the only regret about his part is that it is too short. William Leach brings a kind of manic power and an eloquent voice to Judge Gaunt, and Donald James Campbell renders an eerie, effective portrait of Shadow, the underworld sidekick. Unfortunately, his boss, John Britt as Trock, just about chews the scenery...