Word: disrespective
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...large degree it is the very ideology of the President and his Administration that seems to encourage a climate of abuse. Reagan appointees have tended to share a common philosophy about government: less is better, none is best. Many appear to have come to Washington with an innate disrespect for its institutions and a disregard for the rules that govern them...
...There's a deep intellectual disrespect for us because we are Black or Hispanic," says Morris, Tulane's only Black among the school's 37 law professors...
...Reagan's presidency, there is no need to bicker about the relative venality of the various crimes his Administration committed. The President has broken faith with the American people. He swore to uphold and to defend the Constitution but instead led his Administration on a course that shows gross disrespect for the rule of law. As disastrous as President Reagan's tenure has been, the legacy of his Administration will not be its short-sighted policies, but a perversion of the fundamental process of government that will not soon be forgotten...
...group of more than 50 cab drivers walked into City Hall yesterday to protest alleged police harassment, unfair treatment by Cambridge businesses, and general disrespect for their trade...
...accomplishment to use his lectern as a pulpit for deriding the president and subjecting him to mockery. It leaves the students in a position where they must take a partisan stance, even it that be unconcious. And the total effect of action here is to contribute to unruliness, disrespect and worst of all indecorum...