Word: disrespective
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nine-member Council concluded its discussion by retroactively approving the bay windows, with the four CCA members dissenting. One of the latter, Councillor David E. Sullivan, said the decision "encourages disrespect for the law" and said developers would decide in the future that "we'll do the work first and ask questions later...
...larger meaning by allowing representatives of a South African catering company to tour Harvard dining facilities last Friday. A national organization arranged the visit, while administrators with Harvard University Dining Services approved and led it--an unsettling example of how the most innocent contact with South Africa can show disrespect for the most important of human principles: racial equality...
Such stubbornness and disrespect for both the Constitution and the citizenry only means that in the end we can expect President Reagan to issue pardons. We can also expect that the pardons will come long after the election is over, which may even be long after Vice President Bush has been elected his successor. If this were to come to pass, it would be hard to have much faith, either in a Constitution which could allow such deeds to go unpunished, or in a citizenry which could allow such deeds to be repeated. As slowly as the wheels of justice...
...thecollege issue a statement on racism. In response,Freedman spoke at a rally in front of ParkhurstHall, Dartmouth's main administration building onMonday. According to Rick Adams, a collegespokesman, Freedman called the students actions"unnecessarily and inapropriately provocative."The president added that "Racism, sexism, andother forms of ignorance and disrespect have noplace at Dartmouth," the spokesman said...
Students can learn nothing except disrespect for any alcohol policy. Remember the mocking motto on the back of Quincy House T-shirts: "Thank you for obeying Massachusets drinking laws...