Word: abhors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moves to appease black workers, Prime Minister Botha risks the wrath of Afrikaner hardliners, who abhor his apartheid reforms. Soon after Thozamile Botha's walkout, white union members held an angry meeting that led to an outburst of racial slurs; blacks were accused of "fouling" integrated toilets and making insulting remarks about white women. If the government cracks down hard on the protesters, as it did to quell the rioting in Soweto in 1976, it might spark more unrest. Predicts Fred Ferreira, Ford's industrial relations manager: "Inactivity is not going to solve this problem. Whether...
...I.R.A. as freedom fighters: The present I.R.A., the Provisional I.R.A., bears no relation whatsoever to the I.R.A. that existed in the early 1920s and before our war of independence. They have been outlawed by successive Irish governments. We abhor entirely the manner in which they are pursuing their activities-placing bombs in crowded areas, killing indiscriminately, doing acts of violence that make Irish people ashamed. These men are not fighting for a united Ireland; they are maintaining the division of Ireland-the fear and bitterness that exist in the North. It is brutal and horrific gangsterism...
Every year dozens of hopeful students trudge over to University Health Services (UHS), praying that maybe--just maybe--they can skirt the one-year language requirement. They're not Francophobes, and they don't really believe German was designed to be understood only by Bavarians, but they abhor the idea of anything to do with bon mots in exotic tongues...
...this response really any different from the one university officials might make in defending their continued investment in companies whose policies they abhor, yet in whose policies they have a small voice, and from whose earnings the university benefits...
...employs mainly faculty members with conservative and/or hawkish views with dire results for some of its intelligence estimates. If one supports the CIA, the explanation is because liberal academics abhor the CIA and cannot be trusted with secrets. It one opposes the agency, the explanation is the CIA's desire to slant its analysis to the right. On balance, however, I believe links in this area between the CIA and the academic community should not be banned although all contacts should be open...