Word: regretably
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gone but Lebanon has always prospered. The newest occupiers are judged in comparison with their predecessors, a distinct advantage. The Syrians, who have been in Lebanon since 1976 as the main component of an Arab Deterrent Force, are generally disliked because of their heavyhandedness. Similarly, many Lebanese will not regret the departure of the P.L.O., which has run sizable parts of the south as a state within a state...
Watt admits as much. After all, he says, "I have never had criticism from anybody I really respect." The problem is that for Watt, criticism and respect seem almost mutually exclusive. But even some allies have lost patience with Watt's combative bent. They regret, among other things, the political costs of Watt's proposal that snowmobiles and motorbikes be more widely permitted in national parks...
...tapes. The voices, though, are easily recognizable. The world-weary Bogart, for example, brings back memories of Casablanca. While the song As Time Goes By plays softly in the background, the sound-alike says: "Leave your name and number. If you don't, you'll regret it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life...
...weeks ago, Weidenbaum, 55, informed the President that he wanted to leave his job as Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers in order to return to teaching at Washington University in St. Louis. Reagan accepted the resignation "with deep regret." The premature disclosure forced Deputy Press Secretary Larry Speakes to insist that Weidenbaum's resignation "is in no way connected with any policy situation whatever...
...What does he have to say to anyone? Still, he offers a goal, a purpose, in a place where purposes are hard to come by or confused. This day, then, will offer one last look at the torn half city. There is an odd sense of loss and regret at the prospect of leaving. Why? Nothing is whole here. The buildings and bodies broken. Nothing is safe. What has happened so far is terrible; what may happen, more terrible still. Yet this is the center of the world for the moment. This parched, sunstruck, ruined place is where the world...