Word: disregards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nation are fortunate that school admissions officers have demonstrated a courage and a willingness to read, hear and disregard some of the materials which proclaim the infallibility of standardized tests. Unfortunately, much of such material fails to take into consideration the vast efforts and resources this country put into burning the scars of deprivation and inequality into millions of its citizens. The doors of opportunity were never open to any appreciable number of minority group people. To suggest that all things are equal and the same with various groups is nothing less than intellectual dishonesty...
After 1968 Rainer became less concerned with perception and, relinquishing her earlier disregard, more concerned with performance. She experimented with displaying the rehearsal process performance and began to use untrained dancers in her company. Then, abandoning these initiatives in the early seventies, she turned her focus to, in her words, "autobiography, fiction, media...
...that he is not very exciting, gives bad speeches, and now and then shows up in California when he should be behind his desk or vice versa. But this is trivial. If anything has distinguished the American people in the past several years, it has been their ability to disregard such things and get to the heart of important matters and men-like Viet Nam and Richard Nixon...
...pension funds, which in turn are being used to buy up the companies; "fund Socialism" was the term Swedish Economist Erik Lundberg employed to describe the process. In Britain, the Labor Party's left wing continues to demand the nationalization of shipbuilding, aircraft production and banking-in disregard of the fact that most of Britain's already nationalized industries are chronic money losers whose inefficiencies are a major cause of the country's dismal economic plight. In West Germany, the unions still support the profit motive but are demanding a more decisive voice in how earnings...
...during the past two years, died soon after being born at the clinic. His wife and 32-year-old son, who despite having no medical certification served as his assistants, were also booked for murder. The deaths, charged Deputy D.A. Dinko Bozanich, stemmed from "a wanton and reckless disregard for life...