Word: abhor
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...ruling gave them the right to leave their teams after six years of major league service and sign with the highest bidder. Since then, 248 players have taken that option, and the average major league salary has more than tripled, to almost $180,000 a year. The owners abhor free agency more than rain and have been trying to force modifications of the system. A strike over the issue was narrowly avoided last year when the owners and the Major League Baseball Players Association agreed to further negotiations. The two sides failed to come up with a settlement during...
...Haig's eyes, U.S. policy since Viet Nam has often seemed-and been -"confused with respect to the priorities we should establish" and disposed "to abhor anything military." Power in the world, to some extent, "has become diffused over 150 nations," creating a climate of severe instability...
...John Paul II told 15,000 Japanese, "nuclear stockpiles have grown . . . Even if a mere fraction of the available weapons were to be used, one has to ask whether . . . the very destruction of humanity is not a real possibility." He added: "To remember Hiroshima is to abhor nuclear war. To remember Hiroshima is to commit oneself to peace...
University spokesmen did, like State Department spokesmen, "condemn and abhor" the racial incident, but Bok, the supposed leader of the University, remained mute. Perhaps the strange confluence of the death threat with the Yale Game influenced his low-key posture. But it should not surprise Bok or any other administrator that minority students grew, and are growing, increasingly disenchanted with the president's failure to take even a cosmetic, symbolic stand. After national circulation of the Klitgaard study, Bok vigorously apologized for any hurt caused by its disclosure, but issued no disclaimer of the report's findings. And these local...
...there is a civilizing theme that runs through the ranks of the people who lead world commerce. They abhor war, they have a rising sense of their obligation to help less developed societies and, in most cases, they see that self-restraint and cooperation are essential to provide the necessary stability to make it all work...