Word: blatantness
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Huskie hurler Rich Deraney (1-2) manhandled the Crimson for two innings before being pulled for reliever Jamie Doughty. Doughty walked Konjoyan on four pitches to open the third, but escaped the inning unscathed. In the fourth, a shaky Doughty walked five batters, issued a blatant balk, and saw Caeran flub an easy double play. Still, the Crimson could only score...
...presumed that latent in America's cheerful pluralistic soul lies a hot well of anti-Semitic bile, waiting to shoot into a geyser. There's no sure way of telling. In social terms, the eruption of that sort of hatred could be ugly, violent, divisive. In practical terms, blatant anti-Semitism could result in a withdrawal of American tax dollars, leaving the nation that made a garden from a desert as vulnerable to its enemies as a flipped turtle...
...This has got to be the most blatant attempt to arm the governor with more campaign tools," the Wellesley Republican said...
...numbers work against women scholars in more ways than one. Many women specialize in non-traditional fields or take feminist approaches to their research. The fact that men often judge their work leads to subtle or blatant biases blocking the route to tenure; this is exacerbated by the dearth of available female senior faculty able to review their record. Says Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literature Alice A. Jardine, "Junior women faculty are not only discriminated against because they're women, but also because senior male faculty don't agree with their work...
There are limits. Blatant partisanship can lead to a written warning or suspension. But as long as judges assess competitors from their own countries, using their own perspectives, a completely fair judge will be as difficult to find as a 6.0 skater. Or an unbiased spectator...