Word: blatantness
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...call upon government to fund immediately a Department of Pathetic Investors and have DOPI look into the methods and motivations of those who eagerly plunked down their savings for the likes of VA Linux and iVillage. I'm confident that the inquiry would produce damning evidence of investors' blatant greed, deceit, blind lust for wealth, sorry ethics and outright fraud. In other words, they were no better behaved than the analysts and bankers...
...very embodiment of cheese, with rambling storylines, one-dimensional characters, and melodramatic monologues that stretch into oblivion. Each new Hindi movie is simply a variation of a previous Hindi movie, with a few modifications. (For example, villain with mustache becomes villain without mustache.) The repetition is so blatant that there is a popular email circulating at work concerning the “rules” that all Hindi movies must abide by. Some of the more entertaining ones...
...disclosure, because public reaction is difficult to predict. Revelations that scientists at a privately-funded Virginia fertility clinic are growing human embryos with the intent of harvesting stem cells have provoked widespread hand-wringing, among both advocates and opponents of stem cell research. Advocates worry that publicizing such a blatant and systematic cell harvesting procedure can only harden hearts against the science; in the crude terms of public relations, using stem cells from discarded embryos is one thing, but purposefully creating an embryo only to dismantle it is something else altogether. Opponents of the research see the Virginia clinic...
...Barbara Ehrenreich: No. I didn't see any blatant discrimination. Most of the floor clerks were female, but I did encounter some female managers. Being that I was working at the most entry level, I wasn't in a position to see any upper management...
...Sexism wasn’t as blatant as it had been in the days that women weren’t allowed to go to the bathroom in Lamont,” says Natalie Wexler ’76, a former Crimson executive. “But I was often the only woman in section. My Ec 10 section leader would start section by talking about football scores with all the guys. I never felt like I was really a part of the conversation, that I was really getting the whole section. I could not bring myself to open my mouth...