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Regan

[ ree-guhn ]

noun

  1. (in Shakespeare's King Lear ) the younger of Lear's two faithless daughters. Compare Cordelia ( def 1 ), Goneril.


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In his first public appearance since his confirmation last month to head the federal agency, Regan said the federally financed projects would create jobs for 1,000 people.

In an era defined by partisan divides, Regan won confirmation by a comfortable margin of 66 to 34.

Donna Chavis, a longtime North Carolina environmental advocate who is now a senior fossil fuels campaigner at Friends of the Earth, credits Regan with rebuilding the state’s environmental protection agency amid budget cuts and sinking morale.

Sixteen Republicans and every Senate Democrat voted in favor of Regan, 44, who since 2017 has served as secretary of North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality.

Regan leads the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality.

The female fan base tends to hold steady at 38 percent, according to Amanda Regan, a spokeswoman for Feld Motor Sports.

On the morning of November 25, Regan advised Poindexter to be prepared to step down as national security advisor.

But the president, vice president, CIA Director William Casey, and White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan favored staying silent.

When Donald Regan asked, “Did we object to Israelis sending HAWK ... missiles to Iran?”

Also attending was Regan, who told investigators the president had been “crestfallen” at hearing about the diversion.

By way of episodes the characteristic themes of Regan and Goneril, and then—a second subject—Cordelia, calm and tender.

The second daughter, Regan, says that her sister has correctly expressed her own feelings, only not strongly enough.

But Regan says she will receive him only with twenty-five and then Lear makes up his mind to go back to Goneril who admits fifty.

The first scene of the fifth act at first represents Edmund and Regan; the latter is jealous of her sister and makes an offer.

Regan kills the servant, who, dying, says to Gloucester that he has "one eye left to see some mischief on him."

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