Word: blatantness
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...more blatant example took place at the beginning of the year, when Asian-American organizations from Harvard and Wellesley co-sponsored a Blind Date Banquet, pairing students from each school for an evening of dinner and dancing. Although the banquet was open to members of all groups, few non-Asian students participated. The result was that the event became just another retreat from normal, integrated activity...
...office, which covers California, Arizona, Nevada, Hawaii and Guam, has handed out $1 million in fines to heedless employers in the past two years. But with 400 agents in the region, the INS hardly has the manpower to wage a serious crackdown and thus goes after only the most blatant offenders -- and many companies and illegal aliens are willing to take their chances. A survey by the University of California at San Diego's Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, for example, found that some 41% of illegal aliens in the Southern California area admitted they had used fake information...
...Muhammad's temptation were recorded a millennium ago by Ibn Sa'd, al-Tabari and other authoritative Muslim historians. Today's Islamic scholars, however, do not consider the story authentic. Like the section dealing with the scribe Salman, this episode is seen by Rushdie's critics as a blatant attempt to undermine the Koran as the word...
...hand, the historical experience of Jews on campus parallels those of other minority groups. Earlier this century, Jewish professors suffered from blatant discrimination when they attempted to receive tenure at universities such as Harvard. And quotas restricting Jewish admissions were prevalent only 50 years...
...inch below the lush turf of the Reagan prosperity, fault lines are already formed. While the elderly have grown more affluent, one-fifth of America's children live in poverty. While there was a legitimate need to increase defense resources, the Administration tolerated such sloth that blatant waste and scams eventually evoked an anti-Pentagon backlash. While Reagan celebrated deregulation as the key to a more creative economy, lax scrutiny of the savings and loan industry contributed to widespread failures that will cost taxpayers tens of billions. Wall Street's obsession with wasteful takeovers diverted resources away from constructive investment...