Word: regretting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cyril Ramaphosa, general secretary of the union, accused the mine owners and the government of provoking the violence. The police blamed the disturbances on rival tribal factions and union troublemakers. In Washington the State Department last week issued a statement expressing regret at the deaths and injuries, "especially since they apparently occurred after a legal strike by black mine workers was successfully resolved...
...full of fervor. There's a lot of preaching, but sanctimony can't even creep in the back door. Richard's descriptions of an earlier search for the Lord, when he forsook show business to study the Bible at Oakwood College, are rich not only in regret but in comedy, much of it knowing. "The elders didn't like me taking my yellow Cadillac on the campus," Richard confesses. "They had discovered that I was a homosexual, and I resented the discovery . . . They forgave me, oh, definitely they did forgive me, but I couldn...
...Chief Viktor Chebrikov: My dear Comrade General Secretary. I regret to inform you of a most serious intelligence lapse...
Despite the huge loophole in the Dole order, the plan was also criticized by many in the auto industry who cringe at the idea of installing expensive safety devices. "I regret the necessity of this kind of ruling," said Chrysler Chairman Lee lacocca. "The best safety device, the lap and shoulder belt, is in 100 million cars right now." American Motors Chairman Paul Tippett is concerned about the 1987 model-year deadline for passive restraints. Said he: "The worst thing is to deliver air bags or seat belts that are not right...
Daniel has no regret about the way his book turned out; it is exactly what he intended to write. "In the newspaper business it's your duty--your job--to meet interesting people and write about them," he says. "But people think that anyone who has been managing editor of the New York Times must have something portentous and pompous to say. I may be portentous and pompous, but I don't want to write that...