Word: callously
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...wasn’t so much the callous way the Republican Party exploited the city of New York as an emotional backdrop for political gain that disturbed me. It wasn’t so much Sen. Zell Miller’s angry proclamation that to dissent from President Bush in this time of war is tantamount to treason that bothered me. It wasn’t even the smilingly dishonest way Bush rewrote his past three years to relate a satisfying portrait of resolute strength and triumph that was upsetting. It was that the Republicans were so damn good...
That might sound callous at first, but Warren sees her job as helping people part with some of the things that are no longer practical in a new retirement setting. Her sorters are trained to help clients make decisions about well-loved possessions. "You have to be gentle enough to listen to someone's story about their grandmother's Spode but strong enough to ask, 'so which is your favorite china? let's take that one.'" Clients who presort save on hourly rates, says Warren. Clutter bugs end up paying a premium as they sit in a comfortable chair...
...alarm--and shame--is justified and long overdue, the manners gurus say. "We're reaping what we've been sowing for the past 20 to 30 years," says Corinne Gregory, founder of the PoliteChild. "Society has gotten increasingly callous and me-centered, and we're fed up with [the results]." Her firm, based in Woodinville, Wash., began in 2001 as an after-school program and is now a national enterprise with 2,000 alumni. Gregory's pupils are taught to mind their p's and q's and remember their three c's: caring, compassion and consideration...
...gravity of the issue. Only recently, under the pressure of heightened public scrutiny, did President Bush exchange his previously lukewarm expressions of regret for a more sincere apology. Yet the damage has been done; no words can redeem the atrocity or compensate for the attitude of negligence his callous words revealed. Looking out for the American troops isn’t enough; it only takes one photograph of the receiving end of the blows to remind us that in warfare there are always two sides to everything...
...land. If a person decides to buy Fair Trade coffee instead of generic coffee, they get coffee that tastes the same, but the purchase comes with the “attribute” that the coffee beans were farmed in a conscientious way. One could hardly be so callous as to describe this choice as “throwing money at poor coffee farmers” or to characterize Fair Trade certification as a “subsidy”. Similarly, when we purchase TRCs, we get the same electricity, but now it comes with the attribute of having been...