Word: regrets
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Perhaps the most alarming sacrifice Nixon asked for is the suspension of environmental standards so more coal and high-sulfur oil can be burned. Conservationists responded to the Nixon request with regret and resignation. If there is indeed a crisis, there seems to be no way out of at least a temporary reduction in environmental guidelines for energy production...
...added: "I trust that you understand that I could not in the light of these firm and repeated commitments carry out your direction . . . In the circumstances, therefore, I felt that I have no choice but to resign." Nixon accepted with a one-sentence note: "It is with the deepest regret and with an understanding of the circumstances which brought you to your decision that I accept your resignation." In his note to the President, Ruckelshaus wrote: "I am sorry my conscience will not permit me to carry out your instructions to fire Archibald Cox." Ruckelshaus was never directly informed that...
CRIMSON-DARTMOUTH--The Hanover daily will regret getting up at 9:30 a.m. to be embarrassed. The Crime rolls on and on. Crimson 23-Dartmouth...
...November, Robert P. Moncreiff perhaps typifies the liberal professional's venture into politics: A successful lawyer as well as a concerned citizen, Moncreiff, has become more familiar with frustration than achievement in his four years on the Council. Yet far from feeling bitter over past defeats, Moncreiff's chief regret is that he cannot continue to play a major role in the pitched battle that is government in Cambridge...
...wife, that he could no longer divide his time between the Council and his law practice and remain faithful to both. "I really kind of feel like a heel for not running again," he says. "One of the things the Independents count on is outlasting you, and I regret that...