Word: blatantly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Governor Love started to correct the blatant misuse of the land by appointing a seven-man land use commission. Nine months later, it brought forth a basic program and got it approved by the legislature. The Land Use Act seems bland enough. It merely requires each of the state's 63 counties to 1) set up its own planning group, which would be two-thirds funded by the state, and 2) write regulations, based on the commission's model rules, to control the creation of subdivisions...
...Gentlemen," said the briefing officer, "I have to tell you that this is not a practice blackout. It is the real thing. We have just had a flash that the Pakistan air force has attacked our airfields at Amritsar, Pathankot and Srinagar. This is a blatant attack on India...
Clearly, there were at least two sides to the conflict, and the U.S.'s blatant partiality toward Pakistan seemed both unreasonable and unwise. India has legitimate grievances: the cost of caring for 10 million refugees, $830 million by the end of March; the threat of large-scale communal turmoil in the politically volatile and hard-pressed state of West Bengal, where the bulk of the refugees have fled; the presence on Indian soil of large numbers of guerrillas who could become a militant force stirring up trouble among India's own dissatisfied masses; and finally, the prospect...
...under discusion--though within the rights of those engaging in them--undeniably create an atmosphere of tension in Herrnstein's teaching and personal life outside the legitimate scope of controversy over his article. When SDS-UAG do address themselves to the content of Herrnstein's article, they engage in blatant lies and misquotes (see yesterday's Crimson) and McCarthyite illogic (such as arguing that the defense of Herrnstein's article by the Harvard establishment proves that his ideas are important to them and therefore dangerous). It's easy to see how Professor Herrnstein might regret having written his article...
...differences were personal rather than political. Stanton was able to maintain a solid majority of white Democrats and Republicans in Council who followed a policy of opposing and embarrassing the Mayor on every issue. Strokes in turn lost no opportunity to accuse Stanton and his cohorts of blatant racism...