Word: disdain
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...example, express support for Chávez's basic agenda: "There's no doubt he brought necessary changes to a very corrupt Venezuela," says Mejia. And the leftward, less U.S.-dependent turn he engineered in Latin American politics has ironically made the a more market-oriented model he professes to disdain more viable in countries like Brazil by making it more egalitarian. Sunday's humbling results will make Chávez a less swaggering figure on the hemispheric scene; but a little humility on his part may make his neighbors more receptive to initiatives like the Banco del Sur, or Bank...
...with France's own colonial past, which he said was "profoundly unjust, [and] contrary to the three founding words of our republic: liberté, egalité, franternité". The view reversed Sarkozy's attitudes before becoming President, when he raised hackles in Algeria with his mocking disdain of what he has called the "detestable fashion of repentance" of French politicians, such as his predecessor, for alleged injustices inflicted during France's colonial period. After earlier acknowledging the role of the French state in the persecution of Jews during France's World War II occupation early in his presidency, Chirac relieved...
...wasn't good enough. Nowhere had Obama, with his almost cantankerous disdain for sound bites, been so frustrated as in the unending series of candidate debates that have punctuated the campaign season. In the first outing, he stumbled over a question about how he would react to a terrorist attack, sounding more like a candidate to head the volunteer fire department as he focused on disaster preparedness. Clinton, seeing her opening, spoke as a Commander in Chief: "I think a President must move as swiftly as is prudent to retaliate...
...life, Ian Smith, Rhodesia's last white Prime Minister, believed there was nothing wrong with his white-minority government's 14-year reign over the nation's 5 million blacks. The right-winger declared independence from Britain in 1965, ruling Rhodesia despite raging civil wars, sanctions and global disdain. In 1980, after Smith finally bowed to international pressure, black nationalist Robert Mugabe was elected President and renamed the nation Zimbabwe. Smith...
Rainy weather prompted a last-minute change of location for last night’s pep rally, but did not dampen the spirits of the students who turned out in droves to profess their love for Harvard and their disdain for a certain safety school in New Haven. Organized by the College Events Board and the First-Year Social Committee, the Harvard-Yale pep rally was originally scheduled to take place in front of the John Harvard statue, but was moved to the Queen’s Head Pub as a result of the wet weather. Though scheduled to begin...