Word: disregarded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...civil case that the Securities and Exchange Commission filed in September. The SEC accused Milken of, among other offenses, manipulating stock prices to reap millions of dollars in illicit profits and defraud his clients. The lawsuit portrayed Milken as a zealous dealmaker whose disrespect for tradition led him to disregard the law as well. A suburban Los Angeles native who attended Wharton Business School, Milken was the pioneer of junk bonds as a financing technique for midsize companies and later as the potent fuel for takeovers...
Intelligent eating requires careful reading of food labels, says Dallas dietitian and food writer Leni Reed, who takes shoppers around Texas supermarkets teaching them how to do just that. Her most important piece of advice: disregard the label's measuring of fat by weight. Instead, she recommends working out the percentage of total calories that comes from fat. * For example, a 1-oz. serving of a cheese with a label that proclaims "reduced fat" may indeed be only one-quarter fat by weight. But in terms of calories, it may be 80% fat. "Interpret the fine print," says Reed...
...apparent disregard for company employees and the communities in which firms are located...
...large numbers of homosexuals but do not make a point of it. On the Dec. 18 deadline, Dignity worshipers will march out of a Catholic church in protest and complete their Mass inside a liberal Protestant sanctuary. Thereafter, Dignity plans to continue worshiping with priests who are willing to disregard Quinn's edict. Pointedly, a Christmas Eve Mass will be celebrated in a public school directly across the street from Quinn's office. Insists local Dignity spokesman Kevin Calegari: "We have never had church approval. We don't need...
...administration can make such a blatantly deceptive claim despite strong student outcry for increased minority representation on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences is a mystery, especially given its history of ineffective and discriminatory hiring practices. This seemingly incongruous claim represents another example of the University's manipulation or disregard of evidence in the service of its politics of exclusion...