Word: disregards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Officially the national government remained adamantly opposed to any integration. In a statement last week it warned: "Continual disregard for the law will have serious consequences. The government cannot allow organizations, whoever they are, to take the law into their own hands." Unofficially, however, the government is leery of taking on the Catholic Church, particularly after the international uproar about the Soweto rioting. Said one government official: "We're a pariah as it is. We don't want a quarrel with the Pope as well...
...past three years, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries has reigned as the world's most successful cartel ever, seemingly able to disregard both world public opinion and market forces. Between late 1973 and 1975, OPEC quintupled global oil prices, helping cause the industrialized world's most severe recession since the 1930s, and managed to make its inflated prices stick even through a worldwide glut of petroleum. Officials in the U.S. and other oil-importing countries kept wishfully thinking that OPEC would somehow split apart, but their hopes were always foiled −until last week. Then...
...terms it "a miserable failure." Consumer advocates are just as vehement. "The FPC acts as judge and jury," says one. Congress is the most critical of all. Just before the November elections, the watchdog House Oversight Subcommittee accused the FPC of everything from "preconceived ideological" commitments to "a conscious disregard of its statutory duties." It bluntly concluded that the FPC is "the worst" of all the regulatory agencies...
Developments in Lebanon during the last year and a half have had far-reaching implications for Israel. Terrorism has decreased in Israel and anti-Israeli propaganda and lob-bying, from Palestinian quarters, are both at a low point. It would not be surprising if Israel were tempted to disregard the Palestinian issue even more than it has in the past and concentrate on dealing with the various Arab states. Stability in Lebanon--a condition likely to be achieved in the near future--and a concomitant rise in tension in the Russian-Arab-Israeli-American arena will further encourage Israel...
...narrative of Speedboat jumps around both in time and space as Jennifer Fain, a journalist, relates a series of stories about her past, her friends, her assignments, things she has read or seen. The vignettes, few more than a paragraph long, are juxtaposed with apparent disregard for the way we supposedly perceive reality. However, the jaggedness of the narrative is happily suited to the subject matter of Speedboat, life with "the jet, the telephone, the boat, the train, the television. Dislocations." The reader learns about the characters and events of the book the way Jennifer learns about them: through...