Word: blatantness
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...which hinge on the completion of the bureau's massively expensive Trilogy project, an information systems overhaul scheduled to go on line over the next several years. But Ken Senser, the assistant director for security, is moving faster: he has installed safeguards designed to pick up on activities as blatant as Hanssen's habit of running his name and spook slang through the computers to see if the FBI was onto him. A career CIA official who moved to the FBI in 1999, he admits to being surprised at the low priority accorded security prior to Hanssen's arrest...
...happened that I’m aware of since I’ve been here,” said third-year law student Deidre A. Downes, a vice-president of the BLSA. “This is the first time that I’ve ever seen any blatant racism at the Law School. It’s really disturbing...
...response, the Arabs started a war. The 1993 Oslo agreement too was based on the idea of land for peace. Naively, Israel handed over not only land but also money and weapons. The Palestinians used them to create a terrorist state, complete with arms shipments from Iran and the blatant refusal of its leaders to reduce violence. DOV MIDALIA Sydney...
...days? Winning that war in such a short period shows that these borders are perfectly defensible, especially for a country that has been receiving billions in American aid. Krauthammer should face the fact that peace will not come until Israel ends its military occupation, economic strangling and blatant human-rights abuses in the West Bank and Gaza. NASIM FARACH Tegucigalpa, Honduras...
...controversy over the judging of pairs skating extended to the pictures in our story. Some of you felt the Russians got shafted by ugly photographs. "I am disgusted by the blatant partisanship evidenced in your photos of the Russian figure skaters," declared a New Yorker. "You must have searched high and low for the least flattering pictures you could find." A Vancouver, B.C., reader shared the sentiment. "Surely, out of the hundreds of shots available, you could have published a more complimentary one of Anton Sikharulidze. Shame on you!" The cover portrait of the Canadians, however, got a round...