Word: disdained
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...White House swats away such complaints with a disdain that isn't likely to improve relations. "It's crap!" snaps a senior Administration official. Every member of Congress wants special treatment, the official says, and if you deploy the President too often, he wastes his time and loses his power to convert. "You don't get the President involved at the start," says a White House official. "You set the table and insert him at key points in the process to get key things done, to make key calls to certain people [to tell them it's] time...
...Harvard. In fact, you know nothing about Harvard. You’re a Bruin, all the way. Just remember not to call yourself a junior—you’re a third-year. You have total dedication to anything blue and gold, and complete disdain for anything east of the 405 Freeway, including all Ivy League schools. Those were the ones you didn’t get into, the ones that you talk about with your friends when you’re sharing your GPAs and SAT scores around the clock. Privacy? Nonexistent. Respect for success? It?...
Since Kissinger can hardly hide his disdain for these new issues, the best he does is to again choose the safe course. He covers his bases by paying lip-service to the emerging emphasis on human rights and other new issues, accepting them only as fait accompli...
...LOAD LETTER” error message. Just about everyone has a Milton—the deranged loner who is given odd jobs to keep him busy. And just about everyone has a Samir or a Michael Bolton—co-workers who become friends through shared agony and disdain of repetitive and seemingly pointless work...
Seven years ago, Jeweler Dalila gherras did something any good Parisian would find unthinkable: she left a fine salary and stable job in the capital for distant Marseilles - where unemployment exceeded 20% and where the local disdain for relocating outsiders was legendary. Despite that dire outlook, Gherras remained convinced Marseilles' Mediterranean beauty and inimitable lifestyle would provide "an improved quality of life worth taking occupational and financial risks to obtain." Today, Gherras is not only happy and working in Marseilles, but she has also launched a new career in real estate as hordes of individuals, families and companies flock...