Word: flagrantly
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...farm child labor remains a national scandal. Hundreds of thousands of children are working in fields all around the country. They labor in the cherry orchards of Michigan, the peach orchards of Colorado, the tomato fields of New Jersey, the bean fields of Oregon. The practice is especially flagrant in California, the richest agricultural state. After visiting San Joaquin Valley, TIME Correspondent David DeVoss sent this report...
...Such flagrant examples of medical negligence are not everyday occurrences in U.S. prisons and jails. But neither are they unusual. There are at least 360,000 men, women and youngsters behind bars in the U.S. today, and before the year ends, perhaps as many as a thousand will die there, many of conditions that would be considered both treatable and curable outside the walls. Thousands more will suffer from illness and discomfort so needless that they amount to cruel and unusual punishment. With few exceptions, inmates of the nation's correctional institutions must either go without medical care entirely...
...White House spooks were planning a domestic burglary, and that the agency had belatedly moved to cut off aid to them once the nature of their activities became clearer. But this unquestioned acquiescence to a White House phone call by the CIA seemed shocking. It was also a flagrant abuse of the agency by presidential aides. It raised - but left un answered - the vexing question of just what other secret activities the CIA has conducted within...
...resumption of U.S. bombing in Laos was described by Defense Secretary Elliot Richardson as a response to "a flagrant violation" of the Laotian cease-fire by the Communists. Washington officials said that the B-52s went into action after a North Vietnamese regiment led an attack on the Tha Vieng area in the Plain of Jars. U.S. embassy sources in Saigon, however, dismissed the attack as a minor action-"perhaps a squabble over rice." After two days the raids halted, which suggested that the B-52s were used more to dramatize U.S. dismay over the deteriorating situation in Indochina...
...archaeologists currently engaged in research in the Near East, we were extremely gratified by your strong condemnation of the illicit antiquities trade [March 26]. You neglected, however, to single out perhaps the most flagrant offenders−people in diplomatic positions with access to "unsearchable" means of shipment. Here on Cyprus, for example, greater damage to the island's heritage is caused by the rapacity of both foreign diplomatic staff and United Nations forces in a single week than by an entire year's tourist trade...