Word: disdained
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...Washington D.C. law firm to investigate whether Strauss-Kahn had abused the power of his job in dealing with an avowed affair with a co-worker, the organization's Executive Board cleared the Frenchman of any dismissible violation of ethics codes. In doing so, however, its members made their disdain of Strauss-Kahn's adulterous behavior clear. In a statement released late Oct. 25, the Board said the independent inquiry "concluded that there was no harassment, favoritism, or any other abuse of authority." But it went on to note "the incident was regrettable and reflected a serious error of judgment...
There are aspects of Keynes that haven't worn so well, his disdain for long-run economic considerations among them. ("In the long run we are all dead," he wrote in 1923. He would make it to 1946, but we're all still here.) When there's an immediate crisis to battle, though, Keynes makes for a reassuring companion. While he is sometimes depicted by U.S. conservatives as a wild-eyed socialist, his actual mission in the 1930s was to save capitalism. Now that capitalism may need saving again, is it any wonder that we turn again to Keynes...
McCain, John •announcement of intent to Swiftboat Obama is for some bizarre reason made by campaign of •Blitzer discerns "some disdain" for Obama by •claims to possess the necessary knowledge to solve all of the nation's major problems •erratic aviation record of •fellow citizens of are addressed as "fellow prisoners" of by •frightening noise is emitted by •Obama's "touchiness" and proclivity for "angry insults" are cited without any sense of irony by •Obama is contemptuously referred to as "that one" by •Obama's support for overhead planetarium projector...
...Stater John Winthrop might have had a case in intellectual property court here. Moreover, Palin’s mega-sentence is generally riddled with contradiction. Winthrop’s city on a hill, at least from the abstraction of the Arbella, wasn’t a place for maverickly disdain for critics outside its borders; indeed, it was envisaged as a collectivized moral paragon, a fragile, idealized community that must hold itself to its own high standards if it hopes to preserve its figurative elevation.To be fair, Palin reined in her nationalism, if not her loopy syntax, immediately afterward...
...hours before the House of Representatives smacked down the financial-bailout package, I watched John McCain - eyes flashing, jaw clenched, oozing sarcasm and disdain - on the attack in Ohio: "Senator Obama took a very different approach to the crisis our country faced. At first he didn't want to get involved. Then he was 'monitoring the situation.' That's not leadership; that's watching from the sidelines." And I thought of Karl Rove. Back in 2003, at the height of Howard Dean mania, Rove was skeptical about Dean's staying power as a candidate: "When was the last time Americans...