Word: blatantly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Soviet brutality and blatant disregard for human rights was sharply brought into focus yesterday when Moscow security police beat and arrested CNN's Moscow bureau chief for "assaulting a Soviet citizen." The Kremlin must be complimented on its novel way of describing a journalist watching a refusnik protest. For most Russians, such incidents are a part of everyday life...
...fine on Rich's company, the fugitive agreed to supply the papers. But just as the documents were to be shipped to the U.S., they were impounded at Rich's Zug offices by Swiss authorities, who argued that the U.S. judge had exercised "extraterritorial power" in blatant disregard of Swiss sovereignty...
...offensive enough for a labor leader, denied the Players Association was mortally wounded. "They definitely took a hunk of flesh out of us," he said, "but we're not busted. We're still here." Announcing that the union had filed an antitrust suit against the owners' "blatant display of monopoly powers," Upshaw said, "We've tried bargaining, we've been on strike. Now we'll let the courts decide." They intend to challenge the basic N.F.L. contract, the reserve system, even the college draft...
These, in turn, are represented by the requisite Shepard blatant symbolism: a giant mobile of model warplanes, an ominous yellow-green moon on the backdrop, rifles, a deer carcass, an American flag, and lots of people wearing plaid flannel shirts, Levi's button-fly jeans, and shitkickers...
...General Assembly, Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze called for a United Nations peacekeeping force to insure the freedom of the seas in the Gulf. The State Department knee-jerk opposition to the plan is exactly what it appears to be: reactionary short-sightedness at its most blatant...