Word: detest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...return for those loans, the IMF prescribes the kind of medicine that most governments detest: reduction in public spending, targets for lower inflation rates, tightening of credit-in effect, a reduction in the standard of living. Witteveen, to be sure, denies that the IMF imposes its will on creditor countries; "consultation" is all that it asks, he claims. The distinction is largely semantic: the IMF may not tell a borrowing country how much to cut its budget or how much to raise taxes, but it can keep refusing a loan until officials come up with budget-balancing measures that satisfy...
...unlikely protagonist given his nondescript, middle-aged appearance and his plodding method. Hakan Serner plays Beck' partner, a worried, weary little man who does most of the legwork. The foils are provided by Kollberg (Sven Wollter) and Larsson (Thomas Hellberg), two handsome young cops who cordially and sarcastically detest each other, but who manage to wrap up the case in the end. One is wealthy and arrogant, the other working-class, bright and likeable...
...Successor. Likud, a union of hawkish groups that insists on retaining the occupied territories, is led by a right-wing former Irgun terrorist, Menachem Begin. Hospitalized last month by a heart attack, Begin, 63, will miss the campaigning. Ironically, many voters who detest Begin might be drawn to Likud if he were to resign as the leader. But since he has no logical successor, the coalition could fall apart...
...perdition. In test screenings in New York and Hollywood, reaction has been mixed and occasionally angry. "So far," says Executive Producer Stephanie Sills, "the strongest negative reaction has come from a group of male executives. They didn't mind being portrayed by women. It was simply that they detest the way we depicted them." But the most puzzled reaction, adds Sills, has come from feminists. "They don't know whether to cheer or boo. They're confused and want to think through all of the ramifications." After one screening in Manhattan, several feminists said they were afraid...
...upon those who do not perform up to standard. We have our little rituals for achieving these ends too, such as banquets and parties. What co-op house members often fail to realize is that we simultaneously and inevitably build a certain aloofness to outsiders. Members detest the suggestion that the co-op is a kind of fraternity and refute it by pointing to our open admission policies, which operate on a first-come-first-served basis. No "punching" at the co-op. Nevertheless, we must and do have our snobberies. We are a tribe...