Word: abhors
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...Reagan. Their approach to racial diversity was to appoint token blacks like Clarence Thomas, whose main credential was being conservative. Many blacks wrote off Thomas and his ilk as turncoats. Nor would it matter how many blacks Bush appointed if they, like Thomas, espouse policies that most African Americans abhor...
...There has been a lot of talk of the imperial judiciary lately. Conservatives generally abhor judicial activism, or what they call judicial legislation. But in this whole imbroglio in Florida it seems to me that the various judiciaries have acquitted themselves better than any other of the dramatis personae. The candidates have been feckless and self-serving; the legislature has been reflexively partisan; only the courts and judges have actually tried to take a step back and try to make sense out of things...
...struggle in Yugoslavia and the reaction of the Western powers to the new President. In a democratic process, the people of Serbia voted against the economic failures and corruption of the Milosovic era but voted for a candidate of equal nationalist fervor and hence retained the ideas we all abhor and condemn. The West, which has for so long rejected Milosovic, now has embraced (rather too quickly) both a man who embodies the darker aspects of Serbian ultranationalism and a nation that still believes in it. Have Western leaders so quickly forgotten what that means? IVAN FARINA Sandycove, Ireland...
...ironic that the people who abhor Big Government want to pillory Susan Bailey, the new head of the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration [BUSINESS, Sept. 18], for not protecting them from the Firestone-Ford fiasco? Everyone wants to be independent--until the crud hits the fan. Then they want to know why the government didn't act to protect them. PASQUALE JOHN PIACENTE Newington, Conn...
...just as nice to abhor the vanquished...