Word: disinteresting
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...helped to dampen further the hopes of speculators that great numbers of Americans would rush to trade dollars for the yellow metal after it became legal for them to own bullion on Dec. 31. Bullion bulls in Europe and the Middle East were only temporarily distressed by the American disinterest, however. In a show of confidence that legal gold would yet glitter for them, they bid the price back up to $178 on the London market by week...
This is a movie conceived with indifference and made with disinterest, like a piece of occupational therapy...
...this point in the interview Heller turned to speak to his wife, who expressed her desire to see Harvard Yard, despite his evident disinterest...
Maybe no one understands it. But a large part of the problem is a compound of U.S. intervention and U.S. disinterest--intervention by the government and disinterest on the part of the foreign policy public. While it would be naive to suggest that public indignation could quickly change the direction of U.S. policy, the same efforts towards educating and interesting and shaming the public that were eventually influential in Vietnam are needed in regard to Latin America...
...explanations for the underrepresentation of women in the winners' circles for these 29 awards, recognizing individual essays, poems, musical compositions or academic achievement. One Radcliffe administrator has called the findings "mysterious." An investigation is now underway to determine whether outright discrimination among judges, poor publicity of the prizes, or disinterest among women students lies at the root of the discrepancy. The corrective effort seems to have universal support from Radcliffe and Harvard officials; Dean Whitlock has written a letter of inquiry to those prize committees that have not recognized women in their eligible proportions...