Word: contemptible
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...Contempt...
...talking hobby here. We're talking a love of art, a contempt for law enforcement and the thrill of the score. As for the Gardner heist: "You can believe I didn't plan the thing, or The Rape of Europa would have been the first to go." The Titian work was the most valuable piece in the museum but was passed over for lesser goods, Connor says with disgust...
...rating--despite the abysmal performance of the schools. Two other documents rated the system's special-education-department heads and managers on a five-grade scale from E for unsatisfactory to A for superior. Despite continuing pressure from federal judge Marvin Garbis, to say nothing of the judge's contempt citation against former superintendent Walter Amprey, none of these officials was rated unsatisfactory. Far from it: 26 of the 37 department heads got superior ratings. Forty-three of 58 managers did equally well...
Charging Microsoft violated a 1995 consent decree, Janet Reno asks that the company be held in contempt and fined $1 Million a day (TIME Daily...
Claiming that Microsoft violated a 1995 consent decree, Attorney General Janet Reno stunned the software industry Monday afternoon by asking a federal court to hold the company in contempt for forcing PC makers to license it's browser, Internet Explorer, along with its desktop software, Windows '95. Reno also asked that Microsoft pay a fine of $1 million a day until the company changed its distribution practices. "Microsoft is unlawfully taking advantage of its Windows monopoly to protect and extend that monopoly," Reno told reporters...