Word: regrets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...robbed, the foursome wound up safely at a camp and were allowed to immigrate to America. "We have a different life and different customs," says Nga, who is a hospital technician, while her husband has qualified for his pharmacist license in the U.S. "But we can't regret what has happened before. We are luckier than most...
With that touch of bravado, Andrew Young last week announced that he had resigned as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Jimmy Carter, expressing "deep regret" in a handwritten letter, accepted the resignation of his close friend, fellow Southerner and one of his earliest and staunchest black political backers...
...homeowner, I regret your revealing that house prices have soared from $27,600 in 1972 to $62,900 in May [July 23]. President Carter and Congress may see those figures and slap a "windfall profits" tax on anyone who sells a home. Such a levy would be consistent with the windfall profits tax on oil companies. After all, the homeowner has done nothing to reap that gain-it is a true windfall...
...Testimony and Demeanor Casey demonstrates what one of his characters calls a "lawyer-like habit of being an objective observer in the vortex of other people's passions." Casey is not proud of his cold eye, however. Most of these stories are threaded by the narrator's regret about his role as watcher in the shallows...
...attorney had warned him that the Atomic Energy Act is so broadly written that editors can be prosecuted not just for printing Government secrets but also for publishing information that the Progressive says it gathered entirely in the public domain or through interviews. Knoll told the editors: "I now regret having followed our attorney's advice." To which Washington Post Editor Ben Bradlee replied: "Now, because of some chicken lawyer . . . you've got me cornered into supporting you-reluctantly. I do it with about as much enthusiasm as I would Larry Flynt and Hustler...