Word: disregard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact that there were so many other posters hung up that it was nearly impossible to see any of the original wall was irrelevant. It is Harvard-illegal to hang anything anywhere but the Yard kiosks, the Science Center tack-boards and the House bulletin boards, and those who disregard this law must be prosecuted. The lesson my friend, the offender, gleaned from the whole experience was simple: look carefully before hanging up posters--the Harvard police are on patrol...
Asked about the case today, Burton says it "wouldn't be appropriate" for him to comment while special prosecutor Kenneth Starr is still investigating. Burton's promise to tone down his rhetoric was enough to overcome rumblings among some Republicans, who wanted Speaker Newt Gingrich to disregard Burton's seniority and choose someone else to replace William Clinger, the retiring moderate from Pennsylvania who in the past two years has presided over hearings into Travelgate and Filegate. Burton passed an important test last week. When word got out that his new chief investigator, David Bossie, had procured the Commerce Department...
Orit A. Sarfaty '97, a student in History 1637, said this apparent disregard for professors' teaching practices in tenure appointments led to her own decision not to sign Ngyuen's list...
...sidedness of the media. It seems everyone involved--except the press--was guilty of poor judgment, possible rights violations, skulduggery and potential libel. The media use the First Amendment as a shield for their lack of ethics, their use of yellow journalism and their reporting of rumors with reckless disregard for the damage caused to the people involved. ROBERT V. RIGHTER JR. St. Louis, Missouri...
Rest assured that I did not take this dialogue at face value. Glazed Pork Loin's intent was clearly to criticize the Crimson Key Society's own unusual brand of humor, but surely there were other ways to make the point more effectively. Yet he chose to disregard the sensitivities of Demon's readers for the sake of making a trivial point. There is a real danger that readers flipping through the latest issue of Demon who do not have the time to ponder the subtleties of the authors' convoluted sarcasm would have taken away little more than...