Word: affront
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...moved against Bell at a time when the economy is so shaky. Part of the answer may he in the play of personalities in a new and still largely undefined Administration. Career trustbusters have long chafed to overturn the Eisenhower Administration consent decree, which they view as an affront to the Antitrust Division. In August 1973, some lower-level Justice staffers dusted off the Bell files and mounted an investigation. After 15 months and two changes of Attorneys...
...that it is "poorly-drafted." This is not only the administration line on the amendment, but it is a legitimate academic response: the manner in which the bill cavalierly avoids specifying such crucial matters as, say, the fate of statements made with the presumption of confidentiality is a real affront to academics who are accustomed to dealing with scholarly writings...
...group greatly depends on the extent that people voluntarily act to bolster the commonwealth. In that sense I agree with the author that explicit laws on abortion are degrading and unfortunate. Yet I feel that however unpalatable are laws that attempt to regulate personal decisions--and they are an affront--I do feel that we must somehow remind or edify the public that abortion has significance that transcends that of a simple "medical procedure." Thus, reasonable regulations on abortion (which is something of a euphemistic term) are not so much restrictions as they are guidelines designed to help people...
...lower-class Blacks. He has remarked that the courses in the department were so many examples of "basketweaving." For this slander and others too numerous to mention, his appointment to the board of the DuBois Institute would be objectionable even if he refrained from contributing. His appointment is an affront to the honor of DuBois's name, an insult to the Black community, in general, and a slap in the face to the entire faculty of the Afro-American Studies Department. It is hard to conceive of a more inappropriate choice...
...Afro-American Studies Department before announcing the appointments to the advisory board? Do you normally cause chairpeople of University departments to find out about decisions of such magnitude through a newspaper? That is what you did in the case of the Afro-American Studies Department. For that affront alone, you should catch Hell. Nous n'avons pas garde less cochons ensemble...