Word: regrets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contrast with these affirmative measures, merely selling Harvard's stock in all American companies doing business in South Africa would be a misguided response that we would eventually regret. In particular cases, of course, we may disagree so deeply with a firm's behavior that we no longer wish to be associated with it through stock ownership. As previously mentioned, we have recently sold the stock of two firms that have been intransigent in responding to our inquiries about their employment practices. (We sold the shares of another firm earlier this year on similar grounds.) We are also about...
...reaction, a mixture of sorrow, regret and anger, followed disclosures in a federal court in Pittsburgh last week that at least l3 major league baseball players had been habitual users of cocaine. The drug abuse itself came as no surprise. Multiple criminal investigations have focused attention on the problem since 1983, when four Kansas City Royals, including a former American League batting champion (Willie Wilson) and a once sensational pitcher (Vida Blue), were sent to prison for cocaine use and other players were implicated but not prosecuted. The impact of last week's disclosures stemmed from the detailed, often poignant...
Many geologists remain skeptical of Gold's theory. Says one official of a major oil corporation: "You'd have trouble convincing my company to put money into a project like this." They may regret doubting Thomas: six test bores 1,500 ft. to 2,000 ft. deep have been drilled into the Siljan area, and though Sweden is not thought to sit atop typical petroleum sediments, all six have shown traces of hydrocarbons...
...asked me this question some two months ago, I would have said that the situation in our relations was becoming somewhat better and that some hopes of positive shifts were appearing. To my deep regret, I could not say that today...
...have seen fairly broad development of such cooperation in the energy field, including nuclear power, in chemistry, space research, cardiology and other fields. The benefit was mutual, and U.S. scientists are well aware of it. This cooperation has by now come to naught. We regret it, but let me assure you that we will survive because we have first-class science of our own and because the U.S. is far from having a monopoly on scientific ; and technological achievements...