Word: blatantness
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Though Harvard has not committed any "blatant" violations of Title IX--which states that schools receiving federal aid must provide "equal athletic opportunity for members of both sexes"--Kleinfelder says that the College's athletic department is not abiding by the spirit...
...Harvard's Department of Athletics is usually as clean as a church bingo game. No pay-for-play scandals, no recruitment packages worthy of pro teams--in short, no blatant ethical violations. And, consequently, no nosepoking NCAA investigators rummaging around 60 JFK St. for examples of wrongdoing...
...Soldiers of the former Soviet army remain in all three countries, despite sporadic negotiations for withdrawal. Russian President Boris Yeltsin, faced with nationalist and economic pressures of his own, halted troop departures to punish Latvia and Estonia for what he termed "blatant discrimination" against ethnic Russians. Watching the political turmoil in Moscow, Baltic leaders are plagued by the fear that a coup could lead hard-liners to use the troops to retake the former republics by force...
...talk at some length with 22 recipients of loans or grants from the Prince's Youth Business Trust, which launches young would-be entrepreneurs, many of them unemployed, in realistic businesses. In this crowd he is perfectly at home, welcoming them by saying that the whole event is blatant advertising for himself and listening to both their problems and their boasts. Some of the photographers who cover his wife diligently sympathize with Charles, but as one of them says, "editors won't print pictures of a man in a suit unless he's a head of state...
Hopefully, this mistake is due more to poor journalism than to a writer or editor's callous disregard for the individual accomplishments of Mexican-Americans. Even if this is the case, I find it appalling that Crimson editors continually fail to catch blatant errors of fact...