Word: crassness
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...organized religion its low ebb, when the faithful shill for the Prince of Peace, slogan courtesy of the "King of Beers." Perhaps the clever Budweiser motif can continue. Maybe we'll soon see bumper stickers emblazoned with the logo, "Jesus: Proud to be Your Bud!" It may be crass, but it will sure be an attention-grabber...
Over the board, Short does not display the sort of crass aggressiveness with which Kasparov intimidates his opponents. He is cool and controlled, though under pressure he may fidget like an Oxford don struggling for the right translation of an Ovid couplet. But behind this outer tranquillity, he plots his opponent's destruction. After all, this is a man who once described chess as mental boxing...
...university selling out by allowing itself to be used for such crass motives? Perhaps not, says Smith, who notes that universities have along history of taking a donor's money and then spending it however they please and sometimes displeasing the donor...
They believe that the American people are crass enough to hold their leaders accountable for their legislative action, yet not for inaction...
...conservative era" did not spring from Reaganite nostalgia for a mythical American Eden, or from a crass conspiracy of the greedy and heartless, but from international phenomena: the welfare state had grown too gargantuan, too ineffective and had to be cut back; it became clear that economies cannot indefinitely redistribute more wealth than they create. The emergence of the information society requires initiative and self-reliance rather than the setting of standardized tasks and centralized control. Moreover, the dislocations, including structural unemployment, of the "second industrial revolution" are not susceptible to the old quasi-socialist cures...