Word: regretting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...large-orchestra repertory for it to be a serious contender. The Dallas Symphony has one of the finest string sections in the country, but is interpretatively hampered by its prosaic conductor, Eduardo Mata. Washington's National Symphony, another orchestra with the capacity to rise, may yet regret its Faustian bargain with Conductor Mstislav Rostropovich, the ebullient master cellist who gives it great media attention and a passionate commitment to Russian music but otherwise generally undistinguished musical leadership. Still more able orchestras can be found in Cincinnati, Houston, Rochester, Baltimore, Detroit and Atlanta...
...Soviets are largely to blame for casting doubt on both halves of that proposition and thus upsetting the strategic balance. The U.S. was the first to develop and deploy MIRVs (a breakthrough some of its own authors now regret), but the single most destabilizing development in the recent round of military competition between the superpowers was the seemingly open-ended acquisition of more and more MIRVed iCBMs by the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces from...
...ideological stamp. The Socialist International routinely condemns human rights abuses in South Africa or South Korea, but delegations heading for East European capitals often steer away from controversial subjects. When Poland's General Wojciech Jaruzelski declared martial law in December 1981, Brandt issued a bland statement of regret noting that "unwanted advice and strongly worded declarations will not help the people of Poland." Brandt has also drawn fire for his calls for "revolutionary change" in El Salvador...
...seeking more economic aid for El Salvador than military aid. In Nicaragua, we would like to see . . . pluralism and representative democracy and freedom of the press. We do think that there is a chance for self-government to emerge in an area that has long lived without it. We regret the success that antidemocratic forces have had in convincing too many people that a Marxist-Leninist victory would amount to self-government, that guerrillas are always supported by the majority, that no civilian casualties are caused by the rebels and that leftist victories are always inevitable...
...Berkeley, the cradle of the Free Speech Movement in 1964, a group of them managed to jeer U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick from the stage, temporarily. She canceled her lecture scheduled for the next day. The student senate, in a masterpiece of smug non sequitur, sent a letter of regret that observed, "We cannot help but find it somewhat inconsistent that you feel such great concern for your own freedom of speech while blithely accepting ... so much misery and lack of freedom throughout the world...