Word: disdain
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...reinvent themselves. They know that in 1992, Bill Clinton did not receive an over-whelming mandate from the American people on the power of his campaign goals (an idea that the media took up with relish in the post-election period, but have since abandoned in their growing disdain for the White House...
...source of concern is the Clinton Administration, which many on Wall Street now regard with disdain. Investors fret that Clinton's proposed tax hikes and forthcoming plans to finance health-care reform would slow the economy, squeeze corporate profits and thereby bring stock prices down. At the same time, critics charge that Clinton's often wishy-washy style has helped chill business and consumer confidence. "A weak presidency always makes markets very nervous," says Stephen Bell, the Washington-based managing director of Salomon Brothers. "We saw that late in the Bush Administration, and we're seeing it now under Clinton...
They had tried to break him down, switching tactics midway through the siege. At first they were respectful. That approach got 37 people out, including 21 children, before it stopped working. Then their tone switched to disdain, even mockery, and the harassment campaign of lights and noises began. "It was not there just to irritate them and make their lives miserable," said agent Byron Sage. "It was to keep them on guard, to keep them so they weren't at a fine-honed edge...
Saffold urged students to "become infiltrators with planned action for change," expressing disdain for stu dent demonstrations...
...singing in the choir every Sunday he was in town, wearing robe No. 192 and bringing his family Bible with him. Unlike Jimmy Carter, who made his born-again experience as a Baptist a public testament to his integrity, Clinton is deeply reticent about his faith, even showing mild disdain for those who would play up their faith in any way. "He would turn off the TV angrily whenever a beauty contestant said her success was due to Jesus Christ," his mother Virginia Kelley once said...