Word: affronted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many families, good marks are equated with good parenting skills. Says Anne Cohn, executive director of the Chicago-based National Committee for Prevention of Child Abuse: "Many parents take bad grades as a personal affront." Sometimes abusive parents are repeating the verbal assaults or - whippings that they received from their mothers and fathers...
...ROTC were to stop violating individuals' rights and were not to require academic credit, it should be given University affiliation. The staff says that educational programs not under the academic control of the University should not be allowed on campus. This stand is an affront to civil liberties and freedom of association. If applied across the board, it would require programs such as the Undergraduate Teacher Education Program to shut down because they are not part of the academic structure. But the staff would not apply this standard across the board. It would pick and choose the activities that...
...country comes before the need for financial aid in most cases. Serving as an officer in the military has been a desired and respected profession throughout the world for hundreds of years. To imply that the only reason one would choose to do ROTC is for money is an affront to the values and beliefs of those in the program...
...College is ambitious to ensure a high survey response rate. Unsatisfactory response rates in earlier years may indicate a need for some mechanism to encourage greater participation. The method which the College has chosen, however, ensures response at the expense of a serious affront to the entire senior class...
Howe told a news conference that the EEC foreign ministers, meeting in Brussels, had sent "a strong, concerted signal to the Iranian leadership that Khomeini's threats are an affront to international standards of behavior and will not be tolerated...