Word: disdainful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...begin with a provocation: ever since Vietnam, the hawks have almost always been right on major questions of national security. Ronald Reagan was right to insist on placing Pershing missiles in Europe, right to disdain the nuclear-freeze movement, right to push ahead with Star Wars, right to call the Soviet Union an "evil empire." George H.W. Bush was right to liberate Kuwait (and wrong not to push on to Baghdad when he had the world on his side). Even after the hawks and doves changed parties during the Clinton years, Democratic hawks were right about the use of force...
...PSLM members were not ashamed to say that the janitors were of a different class from them. Moreover, PSLM knew the only way to press for workers’ power was to use the brute instruments of mass protest, civil disobedience and humiliation. Many students reacted with amused disdain to the sit-in. What are these rich kids doing protesting for janitors, they asked? Aren’t they hypocrites? Such comments might be expected, because Harvard has convinced these less well-off students that they too are part of the elite establishment...
...notion of pedagogical censorship, though, is oxymoronic. State censorship of the press is not a pedagogical enterprise—it teaches nothing but disdain for the free press protections enshrined in the first amendment...
...conduct business internationally. More importantly for executives looking to save face (and their jobs), 8% is also the magic number at which the FSA can forcibly recapitalize a bank or place some operational control in government hands. Desperate to raise capital, Japanese banks are finally overcoming their deeply ingrained disdain for foreign investors. American investment bank Merrill Lynch was recently allowed to take an $849 million stake in a company created by troubled UFJ Holdings, Japan's fourth largest bank. And two weeks ago, Sumitomo Mitsui, Japan's second largest bank, sold $1.27 billion worth of convertible preferred securities...
Last week, George W. Bush placed his re-election in the hands of people he used to despise. When Bush was running for president, he rarely concealed his disdain for the sharpies of Wall Street, the financiers who made money by trading paper instead of building businesses. He came by his views honestly, via Midland, Texas, where he had struggled and ultimately failed in the oil business in the 1980's, and had watched as investment bankers fled, taking their cash with them, as soon as crude prices began to plummet. As recently as last July, Bush was sharing...