Word: blatantness
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This week provides a blatant example of what has gone wrong. The AAA is collecting signatures for a symbolic petition against Proposition 187, which is the California referendum designed to strip the state's 2.1 million illegal immigrants of their rights to welfare, non-emergency health care and public schooling for their children...
...opening remarks at last night's council meeting, Hanselman brought the members' attention to what he called "a blatant incident of racial harassment that occurred in a Harvard Square establishment...
...himself in trouble with the following jab at North's $17 million war chest: "He is banking on the fact that he can raise enough money from the extreme right-wing -- the extra-chromosome right wing -- to come in and buy enough advertising to just overwhelm the truth with blatant falsehoods." North's campaign staff seized on the phrase to accuse Gore of insensitivity to children with Down's Syndrome, pointing out that extra chromosomes cause the condition. Gore soon apologized, calling his remark "inappropriate" and "insensitive...
...Screaming, bigotry--blatant stuff is pretty few. The subtler stuff is pretty prevalent," Duchin says...
...homophobia may not always be blatant, but students say it definitely exists...