Word: disinterested
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...currently authorized to use the whole spectrum of illegal substances in controlled laboratory tests. Federal officials say the government, which provides $250 million for universities to buy the drugs, doesn't do much to find out what's happening inside the research facilities. Whether this lapse is due to disinterest or bureaucracy, the results can be deadly: Last April, University of Minnesota researcher Dr. Keith Kajander died from an overdose of cocaine. Although his proposals never mentioned using the drug in his research on pain, Kajander had been permitted to purchase at least 80 grams of cocaine since...
Associate Dean of Harvard College David P. Illingworth '71 says that he is not supporting anyone in the upcoming presidential election. Even so, Illingworth says that this is not because of ambivalence or disinterest in politics...
Nichols' story is remarkable. He not only fought for the drug's development in the face of total disinterest by drugmakers and mainstream cancer scientists but may also have opened the door to a whole new family of cancer drugs. Says Dr. Francis Giardiello, chief of gastroenterology at Johns Hopkins: "He spurred them to look into this a lot deeper and a lot faster than they would have otherwise. He has a proud legacy." He may also posthumously save the life...
...interested inpeople, or social circumstances" and is then ableto praise Hemingway's work because he has confinedthe man's entire project to a stylistic endeavor.Then there are critics like Chinua Achebe, theNigerian author of Things Fall Apart, whois comfortable addressing Hemingway's stylisticcontributions to literature even while expressinghis disinterest in Hemingway's subject matter,because Achebe feels the content of the work hasno particular relevance to him as an African.Finally, there are those whose distaste forHemingway as a person forces them pastdisinterest--which, of course, functions nearly aswell as absolute antipathy in terms of its effectson Hemingway's legacy--into...
Maybe their disinterest in one-night stands is linked to the fact that the class of 2002 drinks less beer than any other first-years in the 33 years of the survey's history. But if they're not at the bar, they're not reading the newspaper either. A record low 25.9 percent consider keeping up with politics important. Fourteen percent frequently discuss political matters...