Word: disregard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...condemning violence in one part of the world while abetting or committing it in another part). Yet, we all know that imitating an international criminal only adds more suffering to a world fraught with 30 to 40 wars. In short, each of their track-records indicate a consistent disregard for the virtues of international...
Sometimes it's hard to believe Metzenbaum was a businessman before becoming a Senator. The quarter's profit increases looked so dramatic because the corresponding period in 1989 was the industry's worst in a decade. Disregard its Valdez-size write-offs of 1989, and the industry's total profits rose only 11% in 1990. That still didn't make them especially high. They represented just a 13.5% return on the shareholders' equity, far lower than in such businesses as cosmetics (30.5%), pharmaceuticals (29.5%) and restaurants (19%). "No one is accusing the cosmetics industry of making obscene profits," says William...
...SCORNING Mother Harvard's concern for her students, the majority demonstrates a childish disregard for the complexities underlying Epps's decision...
...when stores start to "make a killing" on war paraphernalia, our national tendency to look for the instant cash flow becomes a callous disregard for the lives being ended daily in the Persian Gulf...
These dark fantasies may not be imagination run wild. During the eight-year Iran-Iraq conflict, Baghdad repeatedly demonstrated its blatant disregard for the 143 articles of the third Geneva Convention that address the treatment of POWs. A 1985 U.N. report issued after visits to eight prison camps in each country concluded, "Physical violence appeared to be particularly common in POW camps in Iraq." Among the atrocities cited by prisoners: assaults on genital organs, beatings with truncheons and wire cables, electric shocks and mock executions. Late last week Baghdad announced that it was temporarily halting broadcast of POW interviews. That...