Word: disdainful
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...colleagues' reaction was disdain; yet over the next 24 years her dispatches from the biggest and longest-running study of divorced children only got bleaker. Wallerstein took an ever growing readership through a dispiriting landscape of anger and grief, of children unable to fit in with peers, and young adults crippled in their own attempts at love. "We realized that the whole trajectory of the child's life changes," she says. "Over half of the [now grown] children I have been studying have psychological problems they attribute to the divorce." In 1995, at her study's doleful quarter-century mark...
...Clinton said when the negotiations collapsed last week, there's blame enough to go around. Among the politicians, though, it's the congressional Republicans who most deserve disdain...
That view seems shortsighted for two reasons. First, the Democratic base alone won't re-elect Clinton, and the swing voters he most needs disdain old- fashioned liberal solutions like raising the minimum wage. Second, the President's real problem involves a perceived lack of resolution and stamina. If Clinton lets his proposed hike die quietly and holds instead to his original diagnoses and prescriptions (which were right then and are right now), he might come across more like a President than a perpetual candidate--and possibly get the four more years he covets...
...sharp contrast to its predecessors, the current administration demonstrates only disdain and derision for America's armed forces. This contemptuous attitude is most clearly revealed in the University's treatment of ROTC. In sharp contrast to most other colleges, ROTC is considered an extracurricular activity rather than an academic program here. Furthermore, students participating in ROTC must travel to MIT because there are no ROTC units at Harvard. All of these measures constitute an added burden upon students selfless enough to serve their country...
...Predictably, Democrats blasted Helms -- White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta last night suggested the GOP rethink whether someone with such "extreme views" should chair such a powerful committee -- but many of the generals and G.I.s Helms claimed to speak for were also shocked. "Even those who have great disdain for Clinton now have disdain for Helms," say Thompson, who canvassed the military top-to-bottom. "One, they don't like the implication that the military is ready to take a pot shot at the President. And two, they perceive that folks overseas are witnessing a senior senator, coming into...