Word: disregard
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...Student disregard for the council affected not only its reputation, but also its pocketbook. The council's budget--much of which gets funneled directly to student organizations--was hurt by a large increase in the number of students who chose to withhold council dues from their tuition checks...
...defamatory. You have to prove you've been harmed. These constraints will take care of most of the nightmare scenarios journalists worry about, such as being sued for "cleaning up" quotes. Above all, if X is a public figure, you have to prove the misquote was committed with "reckless disregard for the truth." (The lawyers call this "actual malice" -- the "actual" being a lawyer's way of indicating that it doesn't actually mean malice...
...America all professionals except journalists live in fear of lawsuits. Journalists are rightly alarmed that the mere accusation of fake quotes could land a journalist in a costly lawsuit, and the Supreme Court should protect us against that. But if quotes are made up, this alone surely displays reckless disregard for the truth. The claim of Malcolm and her defenders that the Constitution should protect even purposely made-up quotes, as long as the author thinks they reflect the subject's views, is an embarrassment...
Some undergrads, like Emily L. Drugge '93 for one, say they try to disregard the emphasis often placed on summer employment as a stepping stone to a high-powered and fast-moving career...
Unhappily, any attempt to spell out such guidelines seems doomed to failure. The old no-intervention-ever principle is immoral; besides, countries disregard it whenever it suits their interest or when they think they can get away with it. Any attempt to codify principles that the U.N. could make a pass at enforcing would meet insuperable resistance from nations with festering internal disputes. So decisions to intervene will continue to be made on a case-by-case basis and, like the U.S. determination not to aid the anti-Saddam rebels, usually for reasons of realpolitik. That is a messy...