Word: regretful
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...It’s unfortunate that we lost to today,” said junior Jonathan Chu, a likely successor of the pair, “but there was never a sign of giving up, or being afraid, or regret. I wouldn’t rather have anybody else on the courts than Dave and Cliff in those two matches. They’ve come up big for us all year long...
...published in the Journal of Pathology suggested that as many as 3,800 Britons could be unknowingly harboring variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), the human form of mad cow disease. The government estimates that 141 people have died from vCJD since the illness was identified in 1995. Air of Regret SWITZERLAND The government apologized to Russia as investigators concluded that Swiss air traffic control problems were partly to blame when a Russian passenger jet and a DHL cargo plane collided over Germany in July 2002, killing 71. The Russian crew heeded instructions from an air traffic controller that took them...
...dismiss the inhumanities as an inevitable reality of warfare, or to distract attention away from them by enforcing positive aspects of the military, is to ignore the gravity of the issue. Only recently, under the pressure of heightened public scrutiny, did President Bush exchange his previously lukewarm expressions of regret for a more sincere apology. Yet the damage has been done; no words can redeem the atrocity or compensate for the attitude of negligence his callous words revealed. Looking out for the American troops isn’t enough; it only takes one photograph of the receiving...
...complete hokum. All theories are not equally valid; all works are not equally important. Consequently, there is some kind of intellectual hierarchy—and Harvard has a duty to guide its students to the things that are most crucial for them to study. For example, I deeply regret having fulfilled my moral reasoning requirement by reading the “political philosophy” espoused by the Attica prison rioters and by a group of disgruntled bus passengers in Los Angeles, bypassing Kant, Rousseau, Nietzsche and Mill. Admittedly, it was my (rookie) error to take Moral Reasoning about Social...
...Sometimes you play your hearts out,” Gordon said, “and the ball falls just fair when you want it to go foul....I don’t think we regret anything...