Word: disrespective
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conservative Caramanlis has served as a comforting balance to the leftist Papandreou. With Caramanlis in power, they reasoned, Papandreou could never enact his party's "strategic targets," which include withdrawing from NATO and closing down all U.S. bases in Greece. "It was a coup de theatre, in total disrespect for accepted political practices," said a stunned Greek newspaper editor...
...problems in the banking industry may adversely affect all Americans. Nevertheless, I derive satisfaction from watching the bankers suffer. For so many years they treated customers with disrespect. Now, with increased competition, perhaps bank officers will realize that being polite makes good business sense...
Some U.S. Mafiosi believe that Buscetta may also be trying to get back at those who kept him out of the Mob's higher councils because he had abandoned his first wife, thereby showing disrespect for the institution of marriage Others see a simpler motive. "He's settling scores," says a former New York detective who has spent most of his ife studying the Mafia. "He's trying to get even with the people who killed his family...
...time, the plant was like most others in China. Absenteeism, sleeping on the job and a hearty disrespect for managers were only a few of the problems. Bu quickly changed all that. Among other moves, he demanded strict discipline, firing workers who ignored his rules. Angry workers and local party officials opposed the reforms. One fired worker tried to kill Bu with a pair of scissors before being overpowered by employees, and Bu became the target of political attacks. They stopped only after laudatory reports about him appeared in the People's Daily and on Chinese television...
Such inequities were aggravated by the open disrespect in which many Ashkenazic leaders held their compatriots. In 1950 one Ashkenazic writer in the Tel Aviv daily Ha 'aretz cavalierly described North African immigrants as "completely ruled by primitive and wild passions" and warned that "in their camps you will find dirt, cardgames for money, drunkenness and fornication." Though the Sephardim regarded Ben-Gurion as a messianic deliverer, he declared in a 1965 interview that " the Jews from Morocco have no education. They love their wives, but they beat them. The culture of Morocco I would not like to have...