Word: brazen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Menchu and the rest, is just a device, open and bold. Yet that very openness tells us how far we've come in bending the notion of historical truth. Morris' Morris could not have happened 10 or 20 years ago. He stands on the shoulders of giants: the brazen confabulators who make up their histories and the slavish academics who justify them...
...fact, it's already boiling over. Earlier this year, Trial Lawyers for Public Justice sued Chevy Chase Bank for reneging on the terms of its cardholder agreements. The bank's tactics, the suit claims, were brazen. As a Maryland company, Chevy Chase was barred from charging more than 24% interest. So the bank relocated its offices to Virginia and jacked rates as high as 27%. Chevy Chase says the suit is baseless...
...blond tribute, a legacy of greedy flirtation. Madonna is too marvelously sane ever to become Marilyn. Madonna's detailed appreciation of fleeting style and the history of sensuality is part of her own arsenal, making her a star and a fan in one. Madonna wisely and affectionately honors the brazen spark in Marilyn, the giddy candy-box allure, and not the easy heartbreak...
...individuals who are putting their lives in jeopardy are people who are dedicated to upholding the constitutional rights of women. Those who are murdering them are brazen hypocrites. Antiabortion activists willing to kill for their cause are indefensible. Many people are unsure where they stand on abortion; as an ethical issue it comes in infinite shades of morality ranging from conception to birth. But anti-abortion activists who are silent while a violent fringe element do their dirty work stand against the constitution...
...opposing lobbyists have a slightly different spin. Proprietary medications can work better and sometimes protect consumers from potentially unsafe or ineffective generic compounds, according to Alan Holmer, president of PhRMA, a lobby for the brand holders. He derides Mylan's lobbying as "nothing more than a brazen attempt to deflect attention from the generic industry's embarrassment at its recent dramatic price increase and calls for antitrust investigations of their practices...