Word: disregards
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...series of cases since 1964, the court has ruled that a public figure cannot collect libel damages without proving that "actual malice" was involved in the publishing of inaccurate and defamatory material. Actual malice, said the court, means publishing with knowledge that a statement is false or with "reckless disregard" of whether it is false or not. The average person, on the other hand, must show only that the publisher of such material was guilty of "some type of fault," as would be found in a negligence case. The point, the court said, is to accommodate the First Amendment...
...felt horrified at the endangerment to my fellow tenants, and I shudder to think what their response would be a more serious situation," she added. "They acted in total disregard to the safety of the tenants...
Money Tenor. The production is geared to the opera's sublime disregard for stagecraft. The sets, also by Ming Cho Lee, are elegant suggestions of an isolated royal redoubt. By contrast, Peter J. Hall's costumes are as palpable as the clothes people wear in Flemish domestic paintings. The two elements blend in Sandro Sequi's direction, which amounts to little more than staging subtly shifting tableaux...
Early in the week, Moynihan got into a short but sharp verbal tussle with his Russian counterpart. The admission of the P.L.O. delegation, Moynihan protested, showed a "totalitarian" disregard for due process that threatened to turn the U.N. into "an empty shell." Soviet Ambassador Yakov Malik replied: "I agree with the professor, who lectured us that totalitarianism is a terrible thing indeed. But no less terrible is gangsterism." Moynihan had the last, somewhat heavy word: "Totalitarianism is bad, gangsterism is worse, but capitulationism is the worst...
...modern state as the embodiment of the apex of the free spirit. I realize that this may be a questionable contention. But it strikes me that Ms. Reisman's point of view reflects outmoded natural law thought and a Rousseauist sense of the social contract. Such blatant disregard for the dialectic is unforgivable. Besides, the decorating of a Christmas tree may give expression to the work ethic which, as most Weberians admit, is elemental to the American system. Add to this the fact that Christmas trees are pretty and I think that it is very easy to dismiss Ms. Reisman...