Word: regretted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...treatment of grants and personnel hiring, there was no hard evidence to incriminate Malek himself. Malek will tell you today he feels no qualms about his government experience (he served as deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget after leaving CREEP) and that his only regret is that he was not able to implement the hard-nosed managerial programs that he envisioned in 1969 as a headstrong young HEW undersecretary...
...Liberation of Angola (UNITA) and the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (F.N.L.A.). They would have "no problem" under his government, he insisted. But he offered virtually no hope for a conciliatory settlement with UNITA Leader Jonas Savimbi or the F.N.L.A.'s Holden Roberto. Said Neto: "We regret being forced by the treason perpetrated by [these] leaders to take steps in order to prevent new cases of slaughter, murder and unreasonable destruction of human life...
...century; for that, the country-bred Millet was largely responsible. Other paintings of his met similar critical obloquies: The Gleaners, 1857, "have enormous pretensions-they pose like the three fates of pauperdom." The Sower, 1850, was greeted by one conservative as an insult to the dignity of work: "I regret that M. Millet so calumniates the sower," he wrote, disturbed by that faceless and inexplicably menacing colossus striding down the dark hill...
That visit brought Mormon missionaries, whom the family "just made fun of for a while," to the house, Hagee says with a touch of regret. But a few months later, Hagee's interest took a serious turn and by the end of May she had been baptized. Within a year her whole family--a widowed mother and younger brother--had also converted...
...began stumping for the Republican presidential nomination last week, Reagan may well have begun to regret the whole idea. Reason: the $90 billion statement is threatening to turn into the sort of gaffe that has helped sink previous presidential campaigns: Barry Goldwater's 1964 proposal to make Social Security voluntary and George McGovern's 1972 recommendation that the Government pay every American $1,000 a year. Above an editorial at tacking the scheme, New Hampshire's Portsmouth Herald last week carried the headline REAGAN DIGS HIS OWN GRAVE. Although federal taxes would be decreased, Gerald Ford...