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...final weeks of the campaign, King cooled his social-issue rhetoric, promised jobs and prosperity, defended his record as Massport director, and with characteristic disregard for administrative reality, promised state workers substantial pay raises while pledging to reduce state spending enough to slash local property taxes by $500 million...
...dedication ceremony also displayed the callous disregard of opposing viewpoints to which many members of the University community have become accustomed of late. President Bok, in his refusal to address or even recognize the existence of the peaceful protestors who attended the opening, yet again demonstrated his unwillingness to confront the South Africa issue openly and forcefully. Meanwhile, the often crude and threatening efforts of Kennedy School administrators to deter the protestors from having their say -- including their insistence that the demonstrators violated an "agreement" that never existed -- reflects a frame of mind that values the forms of pomp...
...schism between Hiatt and his faculty came to a head in August, when 17 senior faculty members addressed a petition to Bok calling for Hiatt's resignation. The members who signed cited Hiatt's "alleged neglect of the collegial process" and his alleged disregard for faculty input into school policy as reasons for a dismissal, but Bok backed the dean...
...record shows it: Duryea's voting record in the state assembly displays a consistent disregard for city needs in the areas of revenue sharing, mass transit funding, Medicaid programming and low-income housing. But the record does not speak for itself. Duryea, with the silver mane and the mellow deliberate tones and the one careful vote for the Big MAC bond issue, can speak around it with startling effectiveness...
...POLICY in Southern Africa has always been characterized by varying combinations of deceit, naivete, and open disregard for the cause of justice--all based on shortsighted conceptions of American strategic and economic interests. U.S. policy in Angola provides the most egregious example. The U.S. made a practical analysis that the Portuguese were in Africa to stay--that the national liberation movements lacked the military strength or political unity to defeat the Portuguese. It opted to support the Portuguese colonial presence in Africa until the coup in Portugal--in large part prompted by her failing military efforts in Africa--proved them...