Word: flagrante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...programming. The violinist Stephanie Chase was slated to play in each work, first Bartok's First Sonata for Violin and Piano, then the Brahms Horn Trio, and finally the Beethoven Septet. While programming for a single performer might be acceptable even in a chamber music concert, the flagrant insertion of Bartok's Sonata into a menu of otherwise standard (and somewhat related) fare, seemed justified only by the appeal of alliteration. Before she played, it would have been conceivable that her specialty was Bartok, and the deviation in programming could be justified by the quality of the performance...
...equalizing financial aid--why should a prospect become more needy at one school than another, given relatively equal tuition?--the practice of admissions "overlap" is a dubious one at best. Whether or not MIT took part in "price fixing," the financial aid system as it now stands encourages a flagrant excess of academic recruiting...
...think it need be as expansive as we fear. I don't see you sort of ferrying your armed police all over the world keeping order. I think it's much more how you throw your weight in the world arena politically, and how you demonstrate your outrage at flagrant misbehavior in places where it can be stopped...
...picture I see is that of a beaten man who is not combative or aggressive." He faulted each defendant: Koon for failing to intervene, Wind for six "brutal kicks," Briseno for stomping on King's neck, and Powell for a fusillade of chest blows that he termed "the most flagrant violation...
...paper can be torn to pieces; % tangibles have to be taken by force. When I say tangibles, I mean territory. We live in a region in which international agreements are not based on the Bible or the Koran. Two years ago, Iraq invaded, occupied and annexed Kuwait, in flagrant violation of inter-Arab agreements. If it can happen between two Arab countries, what is to stop it from happening between Arabs and Israel...