Word: regretting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ginzburg's arrest again prompted Carter to issue a statement of regret. The Russians next picked up Orlov-whether in response to Carter or simply because of Orlov's activities is not clear...
Hozack, the Edmonton Express' senior center who Dea describes as "really cute with the puck," decided to come to Harvard without any outside prodding. He doesn't regret his departure from the high-pressured hockey of his hometown, as he says that in Edmonton "You're really aware of what's happening in Junior hockey. That's where the struggle to make it is. There are a lot of guys all around you who are trying to make it and don't produce. When you see that kind of thing it doesn't make a good impression...
Talking about her love for Burgo, for instance, Trollope's Glencora says: "They told me he would ill-use me, and desert me-perhaps beat me. I do not believe it; but even though that should have been so, I regret it. It is better to have a false husband than to be a false wife." Raven's Glencora is less long-winded. "I would rather be beaten by Burgo Fitzgerald," she says, "than kissed by any other man." Perhaps Raven's greatest liberty, however, has been his emphasis on the Pallisers, particularly Glencora, among the novels...
...that he can sell Yale as the place where a promising young star should play collegiate hockey. After all, Taylor bought it. It was a difficult decision for Taylor to leave Harvard with his strong ties to Crimson coach Bill Cleary and the hockey program but Taylor does not regret the move...
...that have been involved in natural resources in the "developing" nations since the colonial era have had to make some sharp changes in the way they handle their overseas empires. Some of the companies that have not adapted to new realities of local pride and politics have learned to regret it. The most recent example is Sime Darby, a rubber and palm-oil conglomerate in Malaysia that had been one of the stouter remaining pillars of Britain's overseas commercial empire. That pillar fell with a crash over New Year's with an upheaval on the board...