Word: calloused
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...democratic institutions in the closed hierarchy that governs Harvard. As it is, running for the board is made difficult for candidates not nominated by the Harvard Alumni Association--which also counts the votes. Tampering with this isolated and ill-used democratic process demonstrates just how callous Harvard's heavy-handed decision-makers have become to concerns of fairness and democracy...
SARCASM ASIDE, it's time we sided with the doctors. Despite the fact that any alteration in the status quo will alienate the legal and insurance factions, and the fact that the Massachusetts doctors have been utterly callous in their reaction, the argument of the medical faction on the malpractice insurance issue is still the most convincing one. Though its rhetoric may appear territorial, the medical plea for moderating the run-away malpractice problem is a reasonable one with comparatively egalitarian consequences...
...slimed its way back out the door, it turned and snarled, "You callous political schemer...you devious turncoat, that'll teach you to meddle in council politics." Standing amidst the remnants of my lunch and the smell of stale beer, I realized that in expressing my opinion on the divestment issue, I had unwittingly become an accomplice in a council coup d'etat...
...want to sound callous but one of the things we always worry about in a tragedy like yesterday's is the money it's going to take to correct [the problem] is likely to come out of the hide of unmanned [projects]," said John W. Freeman, a Rice University space physicist...
...Martin's arguments and the manner in which she portrays the problem as a "no-win situation", adding that "something must be sacrificed, either the vents for the homeless or the [question of] students' security." This attitude creates an "us vs. them" scenario that leads to nothing more than callous treatment of the homeless...