Word: callousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these gains have cost us dearly in economic hardship. A market that takes ten years of slow economic collapse to reduce demand in response to a rise in prices cannot be called "free." It would be callous and foolish for us to ignore the gross imperfections in the oil market, and make the US government play OPEC just to make us less vulnerable to the real OPEC...
NIGERIA'S ACTIONS, as callous as they are, pale in comparison with those of Ghana's military ruler. Flight Lieut. Jerry "J.J." Rawlings. Last New Year's Eve, Rawlings and a band of disgruntled army officers shot their way to power and quickly imposed a reign of terror on Ghana. Editors of major Ghanaian newspapers were herded to an army barracks and told that "objectivity" and "neutrality" in reporting were relics of the past: "You are either for or against the revolution...
...farewell messages which annually fill this space, many of my predecessors have gotten the same subject out of context. They have erred toward excessive disdain, describing a Harvard that transformed classmates into sniveling pre-professional sycophants, traumatized by callous bureaucrats, elitist professors and pitiless academic advisors. Naturally, then, the beleaguered undergraduate wretches lack the heart for political commitment...
...Christian Science Monitor recently discovered that a Third World cigarette often contains up to four times as much tar as a cigarette of the same brand sold in the United States. This callous, if not criminal, exploitation greatly magnifies the health risks posed by smoking. The results are beginning to show: The newly created epidemic of smoking-related diseases in Third World countries already rivals even infections diseases and malnutrition--historically the Third World's greatest medical problems--in many areas. And since the result of smoking often take 10 to 15 years to manifest themselves, the worst effects still...
...operation. For every dollar spent trying to educate Third World smokers about the health consequences of their habit, the tobacco companies spend $10 to $20 on advertising. The ACSR labeled Philip Morris' response to a shareholder resolution last year concerning the company's activities in the Third World "callous and misleading." And the governments of victimized Third World nations also offer little hope for a solution--many have yet to recognize the health hazards that await, and where smoking-related disease is already widespread, most governments cannot spend scarce funds anti-smoking campaigns...