Word: regretting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Early Days (CBS Cable). David Storey's memorable song at twilight, adapted by Director Anthony Page from Lindsay Anderson's National Theater production in London. Storey wrote this meditation on age and regret especially for Ralph Richardson, who gives one of his greatest performances...
...Thai citizen, I feel sorrow and regret for what happened to the Viet Nam boat girls in the Thai Sea. However, I am uneasy about the fact that Thailand, which has many serious problems of its own, must now care for some 300,000 Indochinese refugees...
...ducking an issue. Two months ago, public fury exploded after the revelation that two BWH doctors, both Med School affiliates, had written glowing professional recommendations for Dr. Arif Hussain, failing to mention his rape conviction handed down only a few weeks earlier. Administrators at both institutions expressed "regret" about the unfortunate incident, but they refused to comment further on the case. Instead of confronting the difficult issues raised, they deferred judgement on both the physicians' actions and the more complicated ethical questions involved to two joint committees formed within the staff of the organizations...
...pitfalls of office automation, though, can be as great as the promise. Companies that automate with planning and foresight enjoy leaps in output, while those that rush blindly into the uncharted world of the office-of-the-future come soon enough to regret it. Adding word processors and an electronic mail system to a department filled with middle managers might simply boost their output of pointless memos or reams of undigested numbers, thereby actually adding to company overhead instead of paring it back. Says a staffer at Apple Computer Inc., a leading manufacturer of personal computers: "We found ourselves generating...
Stockman said at a later White House press conference that he regretted and withdrew his own "poor judgement and loose talk." "I deeply regret any harm that I've done," he said, adding, "I am grateful for this second chance to get on with the job the American people sent President Reagan...