Word: blatantly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Heights is financially independent now, and determined to continue publishing. Independence is a valuable condition, for it exempts them from all but the most blatant of interference...
...mightily to the cost of living, yet automatic escalators in labor contracts to compensate for hikes in the cost of living index have been specifically denied during the freeze. As labor sees it, the result is much more than temporary "inequity," as the President described such situations; it is blatant discrimination. "The wage freeze is going to work very well because employers will be only too happy to see it work," says Woodcock...
...This year New York's prostitutes seemed particularly blatant. Growing numbers of businessmen, tourists and residents have complained of being verbally and sometimes physically harassed. Earlier this year a man was murdered by hookers outside the Hilton Hotel when he shunned their advances. Another, a former West German Cabinet member, was robbed by a team of girls...
...policing needed to forestall blatant proselytizing also raised the possibility that the Government might interfere with a school's right to exercise its religion freely. This led Burger to apply an additional test that he first expressed in the court's decision a year ago upholding tax exemptions for church property. In Walz v. Tax Commission of the City of New York, Burger argued that the process of assessing and taxing church-owned property would create an "excessive entanglement" between state and church. Supervisors who monitor teachers in the Pennsylvania and Rhode Island plans might sufficiently restrain pedagogues...
...activism in 1965, for example, the Warren Court fashioned the so-called Dombrowski rule, which greatly increased the power of three-judge federal courts to halt allegedly unfair state prosecutions. This term the Burger Court rolled Dombrowski back, barring federal interference except in cases of a prosecutor's blatant bad faith or harassment, or when a state law is "flagrantly and patently violative of express constitutional prohibitions in every clause, sentence and paragraph...