Word: contemptable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cents up. At one point, when they have pooled their money with a third friend to play the dollar machines, all three squeal together and draw a crowd five deep. "How much did they win?" people ask. "$100," comes the reply. "Oh, shoot," says a hardened gambler. His contempt delights them more than their jackpot, which they duly pump back into the machine...
Three CBS television staffers were ordered out of the country. The government accused them of filming a mass funeral of Black riot victims in "flagrant contempt" of a court prohibition...
Home Minister Stoffel Botha said that, in shooting and broadcasting film of the funeral Wednesday in the black township of Alexandra, the network acted in "flagrant contempt" of a court verdict upholding a police ban on cameras at the scene. CBS and other networks had asked the court to cancel the prohibition...
...serious structural flaws in the program. Specifically, the program was conceived and planned for six months without input of Black South Africans. That Steiner now claims he can smooth over any problems during his upcoming visit to South Africa is to show a basic lack of respect and contempt for the people he is supposedly trying to help...
...discuss the status of four Manhattan properties. Knox said that Joseph Bernstein, a New York developer who has been linked in court records and press reports to supposed Marcos real estate transactions, had told him in several conversations that Mrs. Marcos owns all four properties. Bernstein, who faces contempt charges before the full House for failing to answer subcommittee questions, told TIME last week that the Marcoses "have no equity participation in any of the real estate deals we are handling...