Word: callously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bill. King could have helped all of Massachusetts. As any visitor to Harvard Square will tell you, bottles and cans greatly contribute to urban litter. And in rural areas, too, unwelcome bottles put a blight on nature and upset ecology. The bill would not only prevent many a hitherto callous bottle-tosser from strewing the streets with refuse, it would also give passersby an incentive to pick up the discarded containers. And, as the economists would say, the resulting cleanliness represents an externality--a cost or benefit to society not reflected in the market price. By charging a nickel...
Western Christian missions like Brother Andrew International show callous disregard for the desire of Chinese Christians to be selfsupporting, self-governing and self-propagating. Ironically, they pose a far greater threat to the future of Christianity in China than does the present Chinese government...
...Volkswagen to take her to the park for a run. As he drove off, a bomb planted under the car exploded; Pringle survived but one of his legs was amputated. On a visit to the hospitalized Chelsea victims, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher condemned the attacks as "cold, callous, brutal and subhuman...
...this fall with House masters, faculty members, administrators, athletic coaches and students to discuss racial problems on campus. S. Allen Counter Jr., associate professor of Biology, said that in the two months since he became head of the foundation, many minority students have complained to him about "insensitive" and "callous" House masters, "disrespectful" faculty members, and "subtle" racism on athletic teams. Many of the foundation's meetings and activities this fall will focus on the Houses, Counter said, adding that some Houses "by their very atmosphere and reputation seem to stimulate or create alienation on the part of minorities...
...lunch programs that would have classified catsup as a vegetable. The resulting furor forced the Administration into a hasty and embarrassing announcement that the rules were being recalled for redrafting. Even so, they remain in many minds a symbol of what critics see as the Reagan team's callous indifference to the poor...