Word: absurder
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...must have echoed strangely from the same platform Fidel Castro had once used to praise the Sandinistas, the Pope condemned the "popular church," a grassroots movement in Nicaragua committed to revolution. He referred to a letter he had written to Nicaraguan bishops last June, and said that it was "absurd and dangerous" to try to form an alternate church. Christian unity was threatened, he said, when traditional teachings were challenged by "earthly considerations, unacceptable ideological compromises and temporal options, including a conception of the church that replaces the true...
...First Assistant Attorney General Paul Biebel told the Justices that the actions of the Bloomingdale police "can only be characterized as thorough and professional. This is clearly not the kind of activity the exclusionary rule was meant to deter." Speaking against a legal rule that the President has called "absurd," U.S. Solicitor General Rex Lee added that the search was made in the "reasonable good-faith belief " that it was constitutional; second thoughts by an appeals court should not bar use of "highly relevant" evidence. James Reilley, the Gateses' attorney, countered by reciting a long list of state...
...Baxter, the Justice Department's antitrust chief, let it be known last week that he thinks company bosses should always record their phone conversations with other company bosses. That would make it harder, reasoned Baxter, to try to fix prices over the phone. Many businessmen found the idea absurd. Could wired golf carts and bugged swizzle sticks be far behind? -By John S. DeMott. Reported by David S. Jackson/Washington and Allen Pusey /Dallas
...that the government of this nation has no right to deny the student eligibility for a privileged program originally designed to strengthen our nation. In other words, a student should be allowed to enjoy the fruits of a well-intentioned federal program despite his deliberate criminal action. This is absurd...
...Living Dangerously is more than just a pictorial guidebook to Asia. Despite its Apocalypse-like teetering on the absurd. Weir's film packs an allure beyond its surface appeal--a seamy romance and political intrigue set to the backdrop of Sukarno's raging Indonesia of the 1960s...