Word: regretting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...editors acknowledge and regret the errors...
With no bitterness but some regret, Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, 61, the former magazine editor (L'Express), author (The American Challenge) and his country's leading technophile, stepped down last week as president of the Paris-based World Center for Computer Science and Human Resources. He resigned to protest his government's decision to use French computers rather than the Apple Macintosh in its ambitious computer-literacy program. Under the plan, which Servan-Schreiber devised in 1984, France will place computer-learning centers in 36,500 cities, towns, villages and hamlets. Yielding to pressure from France's computer industry...
...Vietnam years was that the Johns Administration's refusal to raise taxes in order to finance its war effort ultimately triggered years of inflation and economic havoc. Should the current Administration's thriftless policies lead to economic crisis public opinion will surely turn against arms programs and Congressman will regret having shot their expensive wad on a marginally effective bunch of missiles at the expense of some future sound and necessary system. If there is a lesson to be learned from Vietnam, it is that when government take the right stand in the wrong place they can only ultimately discredit...
...South African Blacks only prove the impotence of what Republicans euphemistically call "constructive engagement." There seemed to be some hope for improvement last year when a group of conservative congressmen lobbied the Administration to take a stronger stand against Pretoria. But when the State Department whimpered its "deep regret" last week over the arrest of six leaders of the nonviolent United Democratic Front, it was again clear that the more things change, the more they stay the same...
...student in Dunster, for example, described how he missed not having even the occasional opportunity to sit down, with a varsity football player in his own House dining room. Many students in a first choice house also feel uncomfortable with the stereotypes and regret having to be labelled. On the other hand, the Houses that do not to first round have more diverse house populations. I have never heard students in those Houses complain about their fellow Housemates but only about the distance of their house from the Square and classes. In fact these students frequently seen most enthusiastic about...