Word: callousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what he said was right. It is that Quayle represents an Administration that has only rarely supported the programs that actually promote strong families -- everything from child care and parental leave to infant nutrition, Head Start, apprenticeship training, gun control and -- well, the list is almost endless. In a callous drone, the less fortunate have heard a single Republican note for 12 years: "You're on your own." Quayle's complaint may be smart politics -- the White House is convinced that the November election will be a three-way battle in which core conservatives will determine the outcome...
...ADMINISTRATION justifies its callous policy of repatriation by denying the allegations of brutality made by these Haitians. Testifying before the House Foreign Affairs committee last month, Secretary of State James A. Baker III claimed that there is no evidence of a repatriated refugee having been the victim of government reprisal...
...newspaper ads, successfully brought pressure on some laboratories to improve treatment of test animals. But others campaigned to halt virtually all animal experimentation, a ban that would cripple medical research. All told, the animals-rights movement has led to a false public perception that medical researchers are generally callous in their treatment of test animals or at least indifferent to their welfare...
...error factor of 50% or higher" -- to a statistician, a grotesque number. The Pentagon has little wish to refine its figures either. It has strained to avoid both the derision aroused by the body counts announced during the Vietnam War and anything that might sound like a callous boast. Some other assessments indicate the U.S. figures may be too high. Postwar visitors to Iraq have not seen enough injured veterans to justify a wounded-in-action figure anywhere near 300,000. British officials estimate Iraqi losses of 30,000 dead, 100,000 wounded -- a bare third of the Pentagon...
...when stores start to "make a killing" on war paraphernalia, our national tendency to look for the instant cash flow becomes a callous disregard for the lives being ended daily in the Persian Gulf...