Word: disrespected
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Furthermore, trying to eradicate the World Trade Center from public memory in the current scenario is tantamount to disrespect for the dead. Television and movies provide valuable historical documentation of the period in which they are made—what does it say about our country if its first response is to eliminate the World Trade Center from the record? The image of those two buildings standing strong against the New York sky reminds us not only of what once stood as symbols of America’s political and economic power, it reminds us of the thousands of lives...
...Bingham left Harvard with the disrespect of his administration, but his opinion that a college athletic department should provide educational opportunities, not football revenues, resonated with the student body...
...advantage. During one of his first meetings with bureaucrats in Nagano, an official took Tanaka's name card, and folded it with a sharp crease. In Japan, that's a way of reminding yourself to toss the card in the trash when you get home?an open gesture of disrespect. Tanaka now carries a fat wad of business cards with him and when he hands one out, he's quick to say, "Go ahead, bend it. I like breaking the rules." Tanaka will try to break the status quo?if the status quo doesn't ultimately break...
Contrary to what Rudenstine here implies, if Harvard were to adopt a living wage policy it would not be showing any disrespect for the collective bargaining process. Moreover, unions engaged in collective bargaining with Harvard have tried to win a living wage for their workers, and have failed due to Harvard’s resistance. Harvard is the more powerful partner. In recent years Harvard has been weakening the unions representing full-time, directly hired employees by subcontracting. Joe Wrinn’s April 27 statement addresses but does not contradict this claim. And although some subcontracted workers have union...
PSLM Protest Showed Disrespect...