Word: regretful
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...should ask themselves why their national flag is being torched with greater frequency than the Stars and Stripes or the Union Jack [Nov. 29]. Like most Chinese whose grandparents bore the brunt of Japanese aggression, I am sickened by half-hearted and insincere "apologies" framed in the language of "regret" and compensation called "economic aid." I am also outraged by constant denials by the Japanese government on topics ranging from the biological-weapons program to comfort women, and I am disgusted by the deliberate omission or glorification of the war in Japanese history books. Therefore, every visit by Japanese leaders...
...QUESTIONS: Tom Brokaw on retirement, replacement and regret...
...colleagues on the news board never cease to amaze me, and I regret any time I have let them down. They didn’t know that offering me as FM’s sacrificial lamb actually placed me on easy street...
...Chinese companies have felt the thrill of shopping abroad before?and have later come to regret it. The first celebrated takeover came in 2001, when cell-phone designer Holley Group bought a NASDAQ-listed Californian company called American Champion Entertainment. Only later did the Chinese learn that American Champion's assets amounted to little more than a children's TV show called Adventures with Kanga Roddy. Chinese firms today still aren't rich enough to buy top-flight companies, but they do have money to spend. Lenovo earned $135 million in its last fiscal year on revenues of $3 billion...
...Everyone will tell you that you should get a job and you should be secure, that’s especially true of your mother (but she’ll come around), and the only thing you have to regret is spending the years 22 to 25 of your life locked up in a prison, in some cubicle, which I do,” says Snyder...