Word: blatantness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...layout, a longer paper and more advertisements in the fall season means that "filler" is often necessary to preserve the continuity of the page. Classic "filler" usually takes the form of messages from The Crimson. Boxes that say "Your Ad Here," or "Got a hot news tip?" are blatant filler. Reuters news photos are a welcome alternative to this, but should still be used as little as possible. However, rather than analyze the intent of Crimson editors in page layout, I'd like to extend the definition to include any news or photo that seems to be placed for visual...
...much how things go in this new adaptation of Washington Square. It reverts to the original title of Henry James' novel about repression and repressiveness among the monied classes of 19th century New York City. But in every other aspect it's a little more--sometimes a lot more--blatant than it needs...
Thursday?s nuggets: Clinton pregnant warning to donors at a May 1996 White House dinner, "This (election) could get away from us in a hurry." And his blatant admission at a Michigan fund-raiser: That a Democratic Party TV ad campaign financed by "soft-money" donations was "central to the position I now enjoy in the polls...
...chief of staff Erskine Bowles has prepared a relatively minuscule list of items on which to use the veto. One item curiously absent from the short list: the AEGIS cruiser set to be built in Trent Lott's home town in Mississippi. Clinton has made his objection to such blatant pieces of pork clear ? but with so much else on his plate right now, the President may have difficulty doing anything about that...
...such blatant discrimination be legal? The critical distinction that the courts have made is the idea of "bona fide occupational qualification." For example, directors can specify women to play women's parts in plays or movies, and positions as guards in high-security prisons can preclude women. Notes Doug Huron, a leading labor lawyer in Washington: "Courts have made very few exceptions in sex-discrimination cases, but the Hooters settlement would appear...