Word: disdainful
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...Europe with conventional warheads, holding regular meetings between U.S. and Soviet military leaders, and adding safety devices to prevent the inadvertent launching of submarine-based missiles. The owls do not slight the importance of arms control. They want to preserve existing arms-control treaties and negotiate new ones. They disdain such simplistic solutions as a freeze on nuclear weapons or a rigid policy of no first use. "You can be a hawk and an owl," notes Carnesale, "or you can be a dove and an owl." But in either case, presumably, wiser...
...teachers who dominate the curriculum. Listening to them is like sitting around the samovar. Alexandra Danilova, 81 and going strong; Antonina Tumkovsky, a strict classicist, in her fourth decade at the school; the ebullient Andrei Kramarevsky, a more recent immigrant--all speak with characteristic Russian vividness and disdain for the article as a part of speech...
...which camaraderie with corporate clients was the firm's chief asset. On the strength of his status as former Secretary of Commerce, he arrived at Lehman in 1973 as vice chairman. Two months later he became the boss. Among his deputies was Glucksman, who for two decades battled the disdain of Lehman's investment bankers toward traders. He believed that relationship banking was finished, that profit would come primarily from trading and better marketing and that therefore his "team" should lead...
...Candidate John Kennedy and in 1963 launched his thrice-weekly column. The globe-trotting, indefatigable Kraft wrote with erudite assurance, whether on the Middle East or Middle America. Once a staunch liberal who made Richard Nixon's enemies list, Kraft later took a more conservative tack, never losing his disdain for sloppy thinking or pat reasoning...
...exquisite talents of David Stockman. In five years as Director of the Office of Management and Budget, he strode through the corridors of power thwarted, in his account, by political nincompoops who never grasped what policy was all about. He has hardly met another presidential aide he did not disdain. He labored unsuccessfully to educate a dotty President in the fundamentals of economics, only to have poor Ronald Reagan ignore "the palpable, relevant facts" and wander in circles...