Word: disinterested
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...livestock market in Ngiya, the cowherds parade their animals before Malik. "What I am trying to do is not make a spectacle," said Malik. "The price is based on how they perceive you. I am trying to portray a posture of disinterest." It's not working. A broad man who is well over 6 feet tall and is wearing a bright yellow-and-blue African print shirt, Malik towers over the animals and their owners in the center of the market. In the end, he buys two impressive looking animals for 17,000 Kenyan shillings each (around $220), well above...
...Political interest among young adults has been on the rise since 2000, after decades of relative disinterest...
...Kafkaesque procedures like those in Mississippi—where people must actually call in to request a request form for an absentee ballot—that convince me that unforgiving voting laws are greater culprits in low youth turnout than political disinterest. In a recent IOP Survey, conducted last spring, 72 percent of surveyed college students said they would be voting in the general election, a 10-point increase relative to 2000. Meanwhile, ask a college student how he can vote absentee: According to the 2003 Survey, one in three students will tell you he has no idea...
...brow is lined by the latest economic woes. The leader of the tourist group is dismayed at having boarded the express train rather than the local. The hipster is fretfully correcting the tilt of his trilby hat. When someone is caught in the subway door, the disinterested glances of his fellow passengers reveal not only a minor disdain for the wellbeing of others but an inherent disinterest in them as well...
...hope, and that our idealism is slowly but surely yielding results. Seeing students participate in community service, political campaigns, protests, Reserve Officer Training Corp, and the hundreds of other activities and organization on this campus has convinced me that the myth of this generation’s apathy and disinterest is just a myth. To be sure, we may be a little careerist. But while Harvard is accused of sending all of its talented students into the black hole of finance, it should be noted that nine percent of the class of 2008 applied to work for TFA, and many...