Word: disregards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...France, showing a facile disregard of its own campaign against "Americanization" at home, dropped its stiff capital-export restrictions, and is rapidly increasing its $247 million U.S. interest. The latest in a new wave of ventures comes from Pechiney, which last month announced plans to build a $190 million aluminum smelter in Maryland with its own 46%-owned Howmet Corp...
...revealed the secret texts of the Papal Commission on Birth Control and exhaustively reported repressions of outspoken priests. Last week Bishop Charles H. Helmsing of Kansas City-St. Joseph, issued a formal condemnation of the NCR. In a solemn four-page public statement, Helmsing denounced the paper for "its disregard and denial of the most sacred values of our Catholic faith...
...words you have taught us to respect, and these are the values we have taken to heart. But at the very moment that you stress these abstractions, you seem to be asking us to accommodate ourselves to a society that reduces them to slogans and then proceeds blatantly to disregard them...
...suits, with a Mercedes in his garage, is a member of one of the continent's 6,000 tribes. However cosmopolitan he may be, he still derives his primary identity from his tribe, together with a loyalty toward his fellow tribesmen that is as fierce as is his utter disregard for any outsider. Makonde tribesmen still slit their cheeks to identify themselves to the world, but it is unnecessary surgery. So inseparable are the images of a man and his tribe in Africa that it is as if he carried an invisible mark on his skin...
Yeasty Independence. Today's directed verdict is usually a response to a request from the defendant. Before heeding such a request, a judge will customarily consider all the evidence favorable to the plaintiff, disregard all evidence to the contrary, and decide that even under those circumstances, no reasonable man could find for the plaintiff. Even if the dispute is so onesided that it amounts to "the word of a busload of bishops against the word of the town drunk," says Harvard Law Professor Richard Field, the question must go to a jury...