Word: blatantly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Being critical of America's policy and its Government has nothing to do with being anti-American. There are no ironclad rules saying our German policy must be the same as your own. Do you really prefer blatant toadying to honest criticism? And do you still believe that what is good for America must also be good for the world at large...
Stunned by both the senselessness of the attack and the Soviets' blatant lack of repentance, Reagan loosed a withering diplomatic barrage in Moscow's direction. First he directed Secretary of State George Shultz to go on television with a documentary account of the last hours and minutes of Flight 007. Then in the space of a few hours he announced not once but twice that he was cutting short his California holiday-first by two days, then by three-as his determination to confer personally with the National Security Council in Washington grew more urgent. Just before boarding...
...violence is often absurdly out of proportion to the take. "They'll knock out a $400 window for a box of paper clips. They'll kill you for your belt buckle," says Patrolman Dennis Hansen. "They have no value system-zero." Drug dealing is so blatant that a visiting city councilman and plainclothes policeman were solicited at their car windows. Young Cuban entrepreneurs drop plastic Baggies of "Mexican brown" from their hotel fire escapes to accomplices in the street. Heroin, packaged in balloons, is hawked in the park like soda...
Generally blatant corruption at ground level appears to have given way to moral ambiguity and gray areas, where the line between private interest and public responsibility is not always recognized. By and large, traditional power has tended to slip from the grasp of special-interest groups. Pulp and paper companies no longer control Maine; Anaconda Copper has long since closed its "hospitality rooms" in Montana's state capital at Helena; Florida's rural "pork chop gang" must now share power with the arroz con polio and corned-beef crowds, and it has been quite a while since anyone...
...strung, gun-swinging adolescents, the workers try to keep out of the way of clashes between the teenagers and police, but frequently get caught in the middle of the bloody confrontations. Oppressed by a brutal police force which randomly kills first and asks questions later, the workers observe the blatant butchering of innocent citizens knowing that at any time it could be them at the other end of the gun. Manipulated by greedy bosses who refuse to make concessions to their simple requests for more money to enable them to eat their dinner of soup and to live in their...