Word: affrontive
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...have begun to echo loudly across the gap. The world last week still heard the shrill reverberations from President Reagan's unfortunate joke about bombing Russia. As the Soviets took full advantage of the incident with denunciations and pious indignation, the Reagan Administration weighed in with yet another affront: the message that it considers the Soviet subjugation of Eastern Europe to be far from permanent. Amid all this, the level of international anxiety was raised by persistent rumors that Soviet President Konstantin Chernenko was in poor health...
This epicurean success rests on an improbable ingredient: a bland, gelatinous, soybean derivative called tofu, which many consider an affront to the taste buds. "Tofu is like eating your pillow," pronounces Washington-based Researcher Lisa Frangos. But she likes Tofutti...
...critical mass: the detonation of one bomb or warhead could touch off a chain reaction leading to the extinction of the human race. For a fact of life-the existence of those weapons-to be so bound up with the possibility of the death of the planet is an affront to reason and conscience alike...
...bountiful pay raises that top executives served themselves this year are in some cases turning into bitter fruit. Critics ranging from union leaders to management experts are assailing the increases as an affront to workers and a potential threat to the economy. Last week the attacks mounted. "A scandal and an outrage!" charged United Auto Workers Vice President Marc Stepp. "When I saw those numbers, I was stunned." Management Guru Peter Drucker, writing in the Wall Street Journal, called for voluntary curbs on top-executive paychecks, maintaining that if companies do not control themselves Congress will set up restrictions...
...Tuesday April 17, Radcliffe President released her statement on the Pi Eta Newsletter, calling is "shocking" and an "affront to the human dignity and sensibility of every thoughtful woman and man who understands the nature of a free and humane society." Horner went on to state that the newsletter "generated a serious erosion of confidence and an overwhelming sense of doubt and disillusion about the quality of life and of education possible for women, and men, here...