Word: disdainful
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...former custodians of the Hotel Flamboyan in Baucau, the picturesque seaside town on East Timor's northeast coast, had a lot to learn about hotel management. Here, during East Timor's darkest days under Indonesian rule, paying guests were treated with disdain by staff dressed in combat fatigues and carrying M-16s and hand grenades. This was an Indonesian military facility that had kept its fa?ade as a hotel to mask its real function as a place to detain, interrogate, torture and sometimes kill Timorese sympathizers of the pro-independence movement...
...naming him, Logan has a strong track record in attracting and retaining subscribers, selling advertising and reorganizing muddled management structures. "There are smart, talented people scattered throughout AOL," Logan says. "But I think the structure has been holding them back a little bit." And for all the disdain the techies at AOL might be expected to have for him, some will be surprised to learn that he began his career as one of them. A pure-math major at Auburn, he worked his way through school as a computer programmer for NASA. He's not a Luddite...
...help, but not as a partner in crime. We need a critical friend with the guts to look her erstwhile son in the eye and tell him to get back in line. The Blair government’s dote-and-nod approach toward America only encourages our disdain for dissenting views. But if Britain puts forward an alternative vision with enough conviction and repetition, then in time the American people will listen...
Joel Stein's commentary on why Americans don't care about the World Cup exemplifies the U.S.'s disdain for other cultures [ESSAY, June 17]. Stein should feel sorry for the millions of Americans who have no notion of geography and cannot come to terms with cultures other than their own, which they always deem superior. That lack of interest breeds anger elsewhere around the globe. Sadly, it seems that the only way some in the U.S. can get acquainted with other countries is through war. NICOLAS BAYCHELIER Chungli, Taiwan...
...cultural tastes - Messier marketed himself as a new brand of global CEO. His appetite for media attention, meanwhile, offered a refreshing change from France's older generation of clubby, secretive business chieftains. But Messier ignored the risk of over-exposure, and his hamming soon generated jealousy, resentment and disdain in France. His Americanophilia also rankled, especially after he moved to a $17.5 million Park Avenue apartment and poked a U.S. flag pin in his lapel. In December, when Messier announced yet another U.S. acquisition and pronounced "the French cultural exception" dead, his country's media and political establishment turned against...