Word: blatantness
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...March 2 news briefing in Sydney, Chinalco President Xiong Weiping tried to allay fears. "The transaction will in no way lead to any control of the natural resources of Australia," he said, adding that Rio's corporate strategies and management practices would also remain unchanged. For now at least, blatant anti-Chinese sentiment in Australia appears to be bottled up, and the investment is expected to go through...
...case of the current budget, Republicans - who themselves account for 40% of the earmark requests - are howling at what they view as Obama's blatant hypocrisy. House minority leader John Boehner and nine other House Republicans sent Pelosi and Obama a letter asking for a freeze in spending levels and for a re-examination of the earmarks in the bill. "There are 9,000 reasons to vote against this spending bill - 9,000 earmarks slipped and crammed into this pork-stuffed nightmare," Representative John Shadegg, an Arizona Republican, said on Wednesday in a statement. "Last night, President Obama bragged about...
...This blatant show of racism left an imprint on both the bus driver and the schoolchildren. That this event took place not in 1958, but in 2008, well after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and soon after the election of an African-American president, indicates how much work remains to be done in combating racial discrimination...
...vice president, writing demographic sales statistics on a thirty-foot-long whiteboard in an Apple conference room. Afterward, Jobs stood up, walked to the whiteboard, which was entirely empty save for the one square foot where Rose had scribbled, and erased it completely. Rose was undeterred by this blatant power maneuver. 'John, God bless him, erased what Steve Jobs wrote and wrote something else over that,' Cohen recalls. 'They were erasing each other's words for about ten minutes. It was funny to watch, but it was very telling - Steve wants to do it his way and that...
...legitimacy of a Kennedy senatorship has been hashed and rehashed by pundits, politicians, and the people themselves. Still, if Kennedy is to be handed the seat, American voters should be concerned, and not just because the prospect reeks of dynastic politics. Her case is merely the latest and most blatant example of how politicians’ personalities eclipse the ideas they represent...