Word: disdain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...commission. Said Pendleton: "I sat at this commission for 18 months and got beat up all kinds of ways . .. Now [the new members] are here, and we are going to do the best job we can for the American citizens." Berry, who could hardly conceal her disdain for the chairman, said that the commission "is no longer the conscience of America on civil rights" and added, "I despair for women and minorities in this country...
Bernstein explains her "disdain toward journalism" as "shadow-boxing with my inclinations." "I actually had to fight wanting to be a reporter since I was drawn to journalism all through growing up," says Bernstein...
...LAST. what the Reagan Administration has been waiting for--an example of present indiscretion worthy of disdain--has finally made it to the newspapers. Unfortunately for she presidents, however, if was the remarks of his own Press Secretary Larry Speaken that so outraged Reagan, reportedly prompting him to throw down his New York Times and declare aloud. "I don't like this. This is not the way I want to operate...
...enemy with a long history of successful anticolonial warfare. That was the last war, though the politicians (not the generals this time) are busy preparing for it still. In Lebanon everything is different: the terrain, the players, the tactics, the goals and the intentions of American leaders. But we disdain mundane details like history, geography and strategy. Viet Nam is everywhere. Every exercise in what used to be called containment-55 advisers in El Salvador, for example-is now called "another Viet Nam." If the Grenada operation had lasted more than a week, one can be sure the dreaded memory...
Statements such as Lichtenstein's could become dangerously self-fulfilling. Sure enough, the evening that Reagan's expression of disdain for an American-based United Nations appeared in the media the Senate voted by a lopsided margin of 66 to 23 to cut by half the U.S. contribution to the United Nations and its agencies. The United Nations depends on the United States for 25 percent of its budget, or a contribution that was set at $363 million for fiscal year 1984. As a founding member and the biggest monetary supporter of the United Nations system, the United States must...