Word: disdain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Untold adventure awaits him. He is the man who will land on the moon, cure cancer and the common cold, lay out blight-proof, smog-free cities, enrich the underdeveloped world and, no doubt, write finis to poverty and war. With his skeptical yet humanistic outlook, his disdain for fanaticism and his scorn for the spurious, the Man of the Year suggests that he will infuse the future with a new sense of morality." --Jan. 6, 1967, from Man of the Year profile of the "25 and Under" generation...
Suggestions of Presidential sexual misconduct and disdain for the law have disappointed the American people and the people of the world. Those who rely on solid leadership from Washington to navigate the important issues of our day are ill-served when legal troubles arising from dubious accusations distract the President...
...master rules slaves. To live life as a slave dishonors humans. Without self-government, physical safety and material luxury are nothing but the barn and the hay for human cattle. Some people would certainly accept that life if the barn is warm and the hay fresh, but honorable Americans disdain it. They truly believe in the motto "Live Free...
...hard sell. Anxious to make their impact on America's destiny, these students have come here for serious study with top-flight scholars. They push themselves hard in order to graduate with outstanding educational achievements and impressive resumes. Committed to scholarship, their attitude toward politics falls somewhere between disdain and indifference. Even at the Kennedy School of Government many students think that policy expertise is a fungible commodity with political experience. They are not interested in learning the essential political road maps, and like students at other elite campuses, too many Harvard students want to make policy without making politics...
...player should be able to dominate a horse trade. Microsoft in the past seemed to regard the Federal Government as an industrial-era irrelevancy; Gates has donated startlingly little political money by CEO standards, and he opened an official lobbying office only two years ago. The company's disdain for D.C. was written between every line of its response to the Justice complaint, which Microsoft labeled "perverse...