Word: disdainful
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...effective means of encouraging positive social change and awareness. Rather than seek mutually beneficial dialogue or intellectually rigorous discourse that would result in an increased, more holistic, awareness, radical students, who I am ashamed to call my peers, engaged in counterproductive debauchery. The protestors’ actions demonstrated a disdain for diversity of opinion, and as a result, the incredibly disruptive protest was a step backward for progressive politics at Harvard. Unfortunately, the previous leniency of the administration with regard to more tasteful student protests will surely regress...
...Schiavo case has provoked a passionate American conversation, which is taking place on a more profound level than the simple yes and no answers of the polls. Yes, the vast majority disdain the politicians who chose to exploit the case. And yes, a solid majority would not want their own lives prolonged in a similar situation. But the questions that cut closest to home are the family issues. What would you do if Terri Schiavo were your daughter? Why couldn't Michael Schiavo just give custody over to the parents? What do we do about custody in a society where...
...open that market. Today China is one of AIG's most promising regions. Yet Greenberg's success was accompanied by arrogance. He thought nothing of dressing down an analyst who asked tough questions, and when AIG came under siege early this year--accused of questionable bookkeeping--he responded with disdain and publicly chided regulators for investigating "foot faults...
...Rice quietly prevailed two weeks ago, when the U.S. backed European efforts to induce Iran to give up its nuclear weapons in exchange for economic and trade incentives. Until that time, the hard-liners in the Administration had regarded the European efforts with a mixture of amusement and disdain. For now, Washington has joined the "EU-3" effort, though it holds out the possibility of ending the partnership if that doesn't bear fruit...
...look over in disdain. I imagine my normally anti-violent self swiping the phone from the girl’s hand and smashing it on the floor of the Eliot dining hall, looking her straight in the eye to say, “Stop. Taking. Pictures...