Word: disdainful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Surely, The Crimson’s editors are not suggesting that two former deans under Harvard’s justly famous FAS are “second rate” and deserving of Mr. Summers’ open disdain? Allow me to suggest that your president’s behavior towards them and others is quite uncivilized...
...than the substance of the case. There were the attempts to inflate the belated revelation of the accident into a metaphor for the arrogance and secrecy that have defined the Bush Administration. And yes, the Vice President's behavior did seem to be another manifestation of his well-known disdain for accountability...
...wrong. As long as I don’t sound like a dumb bunny in my tutorials, and as long as I don’t engage in any terribly conspicuous consumption, I am able to remain relatively anonymous, status-wise. Indeed, there’s far more disdain on this campus for Final Club members and coke-dealing socialites (populations which, I suppose, probably have a good deal of overlap with the legacy sector, but I digress) than for people like...
...Japan, the homeland of Sony, Toyota and Toshiba, manufacturing is still widely regarded as the only honorable industry. Organic growth is esteemed above all, and many large companies still disdain the idea of mergers and acquisitions. To this day, there has never been a successful hostile takeover in Japan. Horie looked to smash these conventions. Rather than expanding slowly over many years, he discovered he could generate outsized growth by rapidly acquiring smaller, financially weaker prey, typically using Livedoor stock as the currency. He cobbled together an empire by purchasing no less than 50 firms, often with the help...
...however easy it may be to understand, the global culture of distrust and disdain has disturbing implications. In Western Europe, for example, naysayers impede needed economic reforms. Government officials know they must implement sweeping policy changes to make their economies more competitive, but leaders who want to effect change must be concerned with the social consequences and their own reelection prospects. "We have to make strategic choices in the context of a strong questioning of our institutions and traditional systems of representation," says Sophie Boissard, a senior French civil servant who is establishing a policy-strategy unit for Prime Minister...