Word: regretably
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...Republicans, it's Bush who works hard at not wanting it. All year his signature stance has been take me or leave me, but that's easy to say when you have a 40-point lead. Last week, with that lead thinning in New Hampshire, he pretended to regret blowing off a G.O.P. candidates' forum, but no one believed him. The other candidates are getting the message. At the forum, when Steve Forbes made his pitch for votes, he said, "I would beg you." Then he corrected himself: "I ask for your support...
...died quietly, and I watched (with some, but not enough, regret) its gleaming gun-metal skin fade swiftly to death's dull gray. It wasn't a particularly big swordfish; it weighed only 247 lbs. A big swordfish would weigh more than half...
...current discontent may be an entirely personal failing, and Governor Bush's call for moral education may have been merely a tactical ploy to court soccer moms. Yet I cannot help but regret that my path through the American educational system has armed me with so much cynicism and has not afforded more opportunity to contemplate what I truly want out of life...
While Abramian says he does not regret complaining about his treatment, he says he would not have lost his job if he had kept quiet about the anti-Russian slurs that were directed against...
...impulse flight provoked a stern reprimand from my parents, now deprived of the satisfaction of a neat set of 3x5s. And though I felt a slight pang of guilt when my father pointed out that he still had my six-year-old face in his wallet-window, regret quickly passed. To be honest, I have always been camera-shy and the lens has never been particularly kind in return...