Word: abhoring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What will be accomplished by leaving these prisoners (young men and women capable of carrying on a useful, normal life) there without any rehabilitation program, without adequate food, without hope of fair treatment? Will it help that much in stopping the drug traffic? I abhor drugs and anything akin to them, but if someone other than the blase embassy could interview these girls and boys, they would find them most happy to use their energies in any kind of anti-drug program...
There is one important reason why Guinier stands out at Harvard: At an institution where traditionalists abhor mixing scholarly pursuits with politics, Guinier endures as a blatantly political figure. His department was created and his appointment made in response to the ferment of student revolt. Five years later, when administrators strive to "depoliticize" things, Guinier still talks about the University's racism, and does it openly and frequently. He is almost out of place in the silent seventies, but he struggles and manages to survive...
...Though Mrs. Kissinger will abhor this notion, I submit that upon her marriage to Henry Kissinger [April 8], the American public found their replacement for Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis...
...sneer that their city has the best police force that money can buy. Others note that it has often been difficult to tell the cops from the crooks without a lineup card. But James M. Rochford, who has spent half of his 52 years on the force, thunders: "I abhor dishonesty among policemen." If he is eager to root out corruption, Rochford has landed the right job; last week he was named Chicago's superintendent of police. He moves in just when the city is in the grip of a police scandal of truly startling proportions, even...
...possible conditions, the one that businessmen most abhor is uncertainty. Yet as the U.S. economy lumbers out of one of its most profitable, troublesome and portentous years, uncertainty is the only word for the outlook. In trying to gauge prospects for 1974, most economists admit to playing a kind of blindman's buff. The biggest imponderable is the extent of the damage likely to result from the energy crisis, which is sure to bring something that economists have no experience charting: a slowdown caused not by lack of demand but by shortage of supply...