Word: calloused
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...economic crisis was once an abstraction: numbers on a chart reflecting decreasing bank reserves and increasing bad debt. The crisis is real now, very real, as everyone from the Prime Minister to the cram-school student knows. It's too bad that the country's co-opted and callous career politicians are still managing to keep their politics local and their aspirations factional, ignoring the fact that roads to nowhere will indeed get Japan nowhere...
...government money. The families see it as so much more. For the traumatized, the charts are like a Rorschach test. Some view the money as a halfhearted apology for the breakdown in security and intelligence that made the attacks possible. Others can't help seeing the award as a callous measure of their loved one's value. Many regard it as a substitute for the millions they think they may have got in court, had the liability not been capped. When the total comes out to be underwhelming, these families take it personally. There's a fundamental clash between...
...government money. The families see it as so much more. For the traumatized, the charts are like a Rorschach test. Some view the money as a halfhearted apology for the breakdown in security and intelligence that made the attacks possible. Others can't help seeing the award as a callous measure of their loved one's value. Many regard it as a substitute for the millions they think they may have got in court, had the liability not been capped. When the total comes out to be underwhelming, these families take it personally. There's a fundamental clash between...
...uncommitted, and with the accompanying lack of concern participants demonstrate towards the serious consequences that may ensue after such actions. When a friend says, “I won’t be infected by a STD; it’s college,” I am offended. This callous attitude seems to disregard the seriousness of STD problems suffered by others across the nation and the world...
...Navy doesn’t care. “We do what we want, when we want, because we’re big, and we have money,” they seem to say. It is because of our actions in places like Vieques that we are viewed as callous and self-centered, an outlook that can only result in fewer allies for America in the long...