Word: disdain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...understand why the Russian people don't trust Boris, and why the American people have developed such a disdain for politics. DAVID A. KRAFT Clarence, New York...
...Some of Karadzic's friends thought his new wife was unattractive and domineering. "We never understood why he married her," says one. "Maybe it was the typical calculation of a poor peasant boy. She could provide him with housing, food and money." Karadzic pretended not to notice his comrades' disdain and called Ljiljana his "Creole beauty." They have two children, a daughter and a son, both in their...
...most popular genre, however, is one sci-fi purists disdain: endlessly replicating paperbacks based on movies and TV shows, notably Star Wars and Star Trek. "Movie tie-ins outsell regular science fiction by quite a bit," Brown says with a sniff. "We don't consider them real science fiction." A bit more acceptable, though still off the point, are traditional sword-and-sorcery fantasies like Robert Jordan's A Crown of Swords (Tor), which debuted at No. 2 on last week's New York Times list...
Given this miserable situation, Romanov was asked, why did so many people vote for Yeltsin? A long pause. "I don't know," he said. Lychev, the schoolteacher, expressed disdain for Yeltsin but voted for him anyway. "It was a case of the lesser evil," he said. "The one thing I wanted to avoid was a turn back to the past." The village's fierce pharmacist, Tamara Bechina, who supports Zyuganov, had this explanation: "They voted for Yeltsin because they're benighted. They voted for Yeltsin because their bosses 'suggested' they do so." The village doctor, Lyubov Chuvikova, will also vote...
...many investment experts nonetheless remain wary of what they disdain as cybergossip, which is usually delivered anonymously. "The problem is you don't know who you are speaking with and why they are giving you advice," says David Weisman, director of money and technology strategies for Forrester Research Inc., based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After all, many posters, as they are called, have a financial interest in the stocks they are discussing...