Word: calloused
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last month was the director of Christian Aid, claimed that the U.S. and Britain had withheld assistance with the intention of destabilizing Ethiopia's Marxist government. M. Peter McPherson, U.S. administrator of the Agency for International Development, denied such charges and instead blamed the Soviet Union for its "callous indifference" to the plight of its African ally. The Soviets, said McPherson, have provided Ethiopia with some $3 billion worth of weapons but only 10,000 tons of rice-a food that Ethiopians normally...
...human complexities are fully recognized. Between his violent rages, Mickey is sincerely repentant, even charming as he whines for one more chance. Significantly, he never beats the children. And the various relatives and authorities to whom Francine turns in vain for help are not evil or callous, just ineffectual...
Turning more specifically to abortion, the Governor contended that people who favor legalized abortion "aren't a ruthless, callous alliance of anti-Christians determined to overthrow our moral standards." Among them, he noted, are the American Lutheran Church, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), and women of the Episcopal Church and of B'nai B'rith. In view of the widespread opposition to an all-out ban on abortion, Cuomo noted, even the bishops had decided in 1981 that it was futile to seek such a constitutional ban. Instead, they endorsed the Hatch...
Your cover phrase "The Population Curse" is insensitive and callous. People should never be viewed as a curse...
...life style in general to try to determine him so seemingly shocking an occurrence--a professor coercing a student with the use of sexual pressure--can in fact be so pervasive. As Dzeich and Weiner understand, it is not enough simply to cry. "Faculty harassers are evil, universities are callous--this must be stopped!" One must try to root out the problem through understanding...