Word: blatantness
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...days, lightning speed in the military bureaucracy for such a request. On Tuesday, Widnall put the Flinn court-martial on hold while she considered the request. An honorable discharge was out of the question; there would be practically a mutiny in the senior officer corps if she allowed such blatant favoritism for an officer charged with these offenses. In private with Widnall, Air Force General Fogleman was even blunter than he had been before the Senate. This was an issue of integrity, he told the Secretary. Forget adultery. The Air Force's core values were at stake. Officers...
...whole thing was blown out of proportion. It seemed like a blatant attempt at creating controversy, of self-promotion," said Jay F. Chen '00, a Crimson editor...
...fairly blatant," she says. "The student just retyped a whole article about an author about whom I knew quite...
...first raised the issue of "weekend passes for convicted criminals" against Michael Dukakis, spawning the infamous Willie Horton ads that helped win the election for George Bush. Fellow candidate Jesse Jackson accused Gore operatives then of employing a subtly racist strategy against him in the South and a blatant one in New York, where Gore's leading backer, Mayor Ed Koch, said Jews would be "crazy" to vote for Jackson...
However, LaFollette suggested that in response to such blatant activist bashing, environmentalists should turn the tables on right wing politicians...