Word: contemptible
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...assumption is that people who listen to talk radio are idiots or mindless robots or victims of slick marketing and packaging. So there's sort of a condescending view of the audience of talk radio; people are sometimes held in contempt by some people. It's just totally wrong. It's 180 degrees out of place...
Since Iran has demonstrated its contempt for international nuclear requirements and the potential to arm itself as a significant threat to the rest of the world, I would feel a lot safer with a policy that denies Iran any nuclear capabilities. I hope the price we pay later for letting Iran off the hook will not be too high. Rick Donald, PORTLAND, MAINE...
...Since Iran has demonstrated its contempt for international nuclear requirements and the potential to arm itself as a significant threat to the rest of the world, I would feel a lot safer with a policy that denies Iran any nuclear capabilities. I hope the price we pay later for letting Iran off the hook will not be too high. Rick Donald, Portland...
Sine Iran has demonstrated its contempt for international nuclear requirements and the potential to arm itself as a significant threat to the rest of the world, I would feel a lot safer with a policy that denies Iran any nuclear capabilities. I hope the price we pay later for letting Iran off the hook will not be too high...
...idea of an Indian taking over, likening Mittal Steel to eau de Cologne and Arcelor to perfume. Within months, Mittal had won out. A century earlier, when Tata founder Jamsetji Tata suggested making steel for the colonial railway system, a British administrator dismissed the idea with barely concealed contempt. Earlier this year, Tata paid almost $14 billion to buy Corus, British Steel's successor. The moral of that story is not lost on India's corporate captains. They say that Western companies had better get used to the idea of Indians taking over...