Word: flagrantly
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Americans have stopped a President from a flagrant and clumsy attempt to obstruct an investigation against himself. "A President cannot command," Cox comments. "He can only persuade," But when opinion is the bound of his powers, he can still deceive. When another President contends our troops in Lebanon are at peace, so he can avoid the restraints of the War Powers Act; when he alludes to vague security threats in Grenada, but bars reporters and obstructs the public's critical vision of threat; when he distorts details and invents rationalizations for his policies, what effect can a firestorm have...
This practice, in the face of previous protest, impresses me as a flagrant affront to the feelings of our people. If it be your desire to alienate and force from your ranks such readers of TIME as hail from the South, you are pursuing a most effectual course...
...News-Washington Post poll shows that when there are conflicting versions of events in Central America, 49% believe TV and newspaper reports, while 37% believe Reagan. Kristol regards Central America as "perhaps the most flagrant case" of polk confusing the public and inhibiting proper presidential action: "If the Administration believes it is crucial that Central America not go Castroite, it should say so emphatically, argue the case clearly, and then do what has to be done swiftly and successfully." Such macho rhetoric often goes flabbily vague at the critical moment: Does "what has to be done" mean overthrowing Castro? Kristol...
TIMES ARE HARD for Israeli diplomats serving at the United Nations. Their Arab counterparts have converted the halls and chambers of the organization into an ideological battlefield almost as intense as the real one back home. While the most flagrant acts of international illegality are silently ignored, a coalition of Arab, Communist, and Third World countries noisily churns out hundreds of anti-Israel resolutions in every U.N. forum. So the diplomats were probably not surprised to learn last week that the U.N. is scheduling a conference in Vienna this July to examine "an alleged alliance" between South Africa...
...most flagrant indication, of course, was the comment of senior Corporation fellow Hugh Calkins '45 to members of the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) that Harvard does not take ethical considerations into account in the initial decision to buy shares in a company. While it sounds unduly harsh, this statement probably represented little more than a semantic change in the University's South Africa policy. As it is, Harvard says it checks up on companies already in its portfolio to make sure they are in some way working for "constructive change" in South Africa Calkins statement simply means Harvard...