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Despite his disregard for the preppy stereotype, Montgomery has apparently done a pretty good job of emulating it. There is no Middle American in his Locust Valley Lockjaw, and according to an acquaintance of his, "He's the kind of guy you find in Sakes Fifth Avenue the day after freshman registration buying striped ties and top-siders to replace his high school sweat shirt and basketball sneakers...
Sensible System. Lawyers take a different position. Many argue that malpractice suits enable society to help bear the cost of human tragedy, and they support Los Angeles Attorney David Harney's contention that the medical community has a "proneness toward patient neglect and disregard." They also defend the contingent-fee system on the grounds that it enables even the poorest patient to bring his case to court...
...Council had been asking employees to disregard the new regulations. It hoped to use the new fees as an issue for future contract negotiations, according to James A. Damery, Secretary-Treasurer of the Painters' Council...
...Left radicals who push for a revolutionary alliance among students, minorities and Third World nations also consider the internal affairs of various sovereign nations the legitimate concern of their sweeping ideologies. Some of the academics who staff the CFIA and the students who assault it have in common this disregard for the sovereignty of national boundaries, with continents no different from campuses. Ideology, free-world ideology or revolutionary, sweeps away the restraints of diplomacy. The delineation of the world into good guys and bad guys was lethal in the Vietnam episode to those diplomats trying to assert themselves over military...
...took 26 years to pass a bill providing compensation to a worker's family in case of accident or job-related disease. The medical school (at the University of Chile) burned down 19 years ago, but the new school is still not finished. There has been a total disregard for the human resources of Chile...