Word: disregard
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...such a warning slip reported to work on the very day she received the slip, even though she was sick. She was so upset at the insulting reprimand and at the attitudes it represented that she broke down and cried. It is quite apparent that there is a total disregard for the employees' health and welfare by the University...
...series of cases since 1964, the court has ruled that a public figure cannot collect libel damages without proving that "actual malice" was involved in the publishing of inaccurate and defamatory material. Actual malice, said the court, means publishing with knowledge that a statement is false or with "reckless disregard" of whether it is false or not. The average person, on the other hand, must show only that the publisher of such material was guilty of "some type of fault," as would be found in a negligence case. The point, the court said, is to accommodate the First Amendment...
...felt horrified at the endangerment to my fellow tenants, and I shudder to think what their response would be a more serious situation," she added. "They acted in total disregard to the safety of the tenants...
Money Tenor. The production is geared to the opera's sublime disregard for stagecraft. The sets, also by Ming Cho Lee, are elegant suggestions of an isolated royal redoubt. By contrast, Peter J. Hall's costumes are as palpable as the clothes people wear in Flemish domestic paintings. The two elements blend in Sandro Sequi's direction, which amounts to little more than staging subtly shifting tableaux...
Early in the week, Moynihan got into a short but sharp verbal tussle with his Russian counterpart. The admission of the P.L.O. delegation, Moynihan protested, showed a "totalitarian" disregard for due process that threatened to turn the U.N. into "an empty shell." Soviet Ambassador Yakov Malik replied: "I agree with the professor, who lectured us that totalitarianism is a terrible thing indeed. But no less terrible is gangsterism." Moynihan had the last, somewhat heavy word: "Totalitarianism is bad, gangsterism is worse, but capitulationism is the worst...