Word: contemptable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Beyond that, patience may be the soundest tactic. Noriega's intransigence is not the only problem. The Panamanian people, though exercised last week by Noriega's outright contempt for popular opinion, cannot be counted on to remain in the streets. They have mounted sizable protests twice before over the past two years, only to retreat back into their comfortable homes. "What we need here is 20 good Korean students," a U.S. official wryly notes. "The people ((in Panama)) seldom put it on the line." Frustrated as they may be, middle-class Panamanians have not suffered the misery that galvanized Filipinos...
...between haves and have-nots has increased. She has ignored the environment, allowed the public infrastructure to rot, starved the universities and other worthy institutions and causes that depend on public funds. For all her talk of freedom, she is an authoritarian outside the economic sphere and has shown contempt for civil liberties. The Thatcher boom itself, say some, is a mirage, and they offer statistics to back themselves...
...golf course was a political statement. To the tune-in, drop-out generation, golf meant Bob Hope and his U.S.O. tours, neatly pressed clothes, graying hair trimmed high around the ears and cut well above the collar. Country-club golf was a symbol of everything the young held in contempt, a bastion, perhaps the last, of the back-slapping big business deal. Golf was something for Dad, but not for the new generation...
...matter what those who are optimistic about perestroika say to you -- the situation is very grave, and it's a dreadful time to live, an enormous stock of malice has accumulated, oceans of worthless money, the fury of poverty, hunger and homelessness, of ethnic hostility and contempt -- all this is bursting forth from the depths and is being channeled against the intelligentsia, which have ungratefully forgotten that under the Genius of All Times and Peoples prices went down every year, there was order and every national group knew its place...
...rapid series of meetings, the Nationalists resolved that the positions of party leader and State President should be held by the same man and that they had full confidence in De Klerk. Their real message was clear enough: Botha should resign in De Klerk's favor. With his usual contempt for the subordinates he has terrorized for more than a decade as Prime Minister and President, Botha ignored them...