Word: flagrante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know this script cold. Just change the words "Confederate flag" to "flagrant Confederate" and repeat last spring's controversy. So why bother actually doing the whole rigamarole? There are not a lot of valuable life lessons to be learned here, and we all (claim to) have better things to do than watch history repeat itself--especially when it was a farce the first time around...
Like most other Americans, pro athletes were generally shocked and saddened by Johnson's plight. His fellow players of the National Basketball Association, however, had special reason for concern about Johnson's flagrant promiscuity. It has been common practice for some pro players to share the favors of groupies who beguiled them. Had the woman who infected Johnson passed the virus to other players? Magic's pregnant wife Cookie tested negative for HIV, but had he given the virus to other women who were still out there sleeping with the stars? Says Charles Barkley, star forward of the Philadelphia 76ers...
Second, with today's shark-like journalists constantly on the prowl for the next Gary Hart, no one--especially not a Rhodes Scholar like Clinton--would run for the White House and expect to get away with flagrant, numerous or recent affairs, much less illegitimate kids...
While he takes blame for his flagrant misdeeds, Levine considers himself to have been "an insider-trading junkie" who simply could not stop. "I was addicted to the excitement, the sense of victory," he writes. "Some spouses use drugs, others have extramarital affairs. I secretly traded stocks." That may be true, but an errant spouse does not bring disrepute to an entire industry...
Countries that don't get with the program are asking for trouble. The Bush Administration in April placed India and Thailand on the Commerce Department watch list for possible retaliation because of those countries' casual treatment of property rights. In Thailand, cited as the most flagrant violator, copycat versions of Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet software sell for the equivalent of $50 instead of the $500 U.S. price. New movies like David Lynch's Wild at Heart, not yet available on video in the U.S., go for $4 a tape...