Word: calloused
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...Many in the West may be horrified by the apparent callousness of South Africa's calculations - and, indeed, many of its own citizens are questioning why the government plans to spend $5 billion on submarines, helicopters and fighter planes when the primary threat to the nation's security is AIDS. But South Africa continues to earn high praise from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Western financial community for its fiscal discipline. It has earned that positive image among investors in part through slashing its budget deficit by more than two thirds over the past six years - and pouring...
...business, like "Gridlock" and "Bad Service," and he edited one on "The Simple Life." As Business editor toward the end of the '80s, he had many encounters with the darker side, including a cover story called "A Game of Greed," in which RJR-Nabisco chief Ross Johnson's callous quotes about his proposed leveraged buyout of the company helped seal his deal's failure...
...slightly callous to criticism, getting so much of it from octogenarian TIME readers and women I've slept with, though, oddly, never when those Venn diagrams overlap. And Zalaznick's criticisms were entirely accurate, except for the part about my editor, who is a total dimwit and barely even reads these things...
...take responsibility, and send an army down to impose our will, or to simply admit, honestly, that the events do not concern us, and that the time and money are better spent at home. This would be—gasp!—imperialistic, or it would be callous. It would not be easy, and we need it to be easy...
What is it with Republicans and school lunches? In 1981 Ronald Reagan looked both callous and politically ham-handed when he tried to save a few pennies on school lunches by classifying catsup as a vegetable. Last week the Bush Administration went beyond condiments, proposing to ax a Clinton Administration regulation that forces the meat industry to perform salmonella tests on hamburger served in school cafeterias. Given the heightened interest in the health of cattle right now, the move wasn't exactly well timed. The uproar forced Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman to drop the proposal the same...