Word: regretted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only regret that the University's inflexible bargaining tactics prevented a satisfactory compromise on the important benefits issue in the contract. Harvard forced the union into ratifying a contract the majority of workers still find inadequate, and further embitters labor relations between Local 26 and the University...
Most experts agree that the current national flurry of general education reforms marks a swing of the pendulum back to the way curricula were before '60's campus activists forced many university administrations to abolish or loosen course requirements. Now that campuses are quiet again, faculties are starting to regret their loss of control over students' educations. Many of the reasons cited for curricular reforms sound like the same ones the fathers of general education offered in the early 1900s at places like Columbia, the University of Chicago, and Harvard. The speeches are so much alike they prompted critic Alston...
...guerrilla camps. That's what Salisbury said. Nkomo said the Rhodesians succeeded in killing 350 of his followers, mostly women and non-combatants. The U.S. State Department called the raids "among the heaviest and most destructive of the war, particularly in terms of loss of life." State expressed regret that the raids were carried out while Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith and his three black cohorts in the current "transitional" government were travelling in the U.S. and emphasizing their "willingness and readiness to negotiate." Ian Smith, back in Salisbury, said the raids were good for morale and that they would...
...solution in southern Africa will come tragically, with a bloodbath. Negotiations will rise and set in the next 20 years, filling the headlines and giving the State Department something to do. When the war comes, when Afrikaaner minds are changed, finally, with bullets, Americans will be able only to regret that the U.S. did not do all it could to support the Popular Front in Rhodesia and the liberation forces in South Africa...
Bessie's daughter, Mary Disinger, 73: "Kids today do just as they please, and no one can tell them different. They don't think about their parents the way we used to, and some day they'll regret it. Muncie's changed so much it's not really Muncie any more. Every day there's a break-in or a burglary. What's worse is that now they go after people too and beat you up on any excuse. It's just not safe to walk around...