Word: flagrantly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reprieve expired last week, China's Supreme People's Court commuted her sentence to life in prison. Her apparently impenitent coconspirator, former Vice Premier Zhang Chunqiao, 65, received a similar reprieve. The court's somewhat lame explanation: the criminals had not "resisted reform in a flagrant...
...decibel portable radios, just as earlier laws failed to wipe out the beer-soaked hooliganism that plagues many parks. Tobacco addicts remain hopelessly blind to signs that say NO SMOKING. Respectably dressed pot smokers no longer bother to duck out of public sight to pass around a joint. The flagrant use of cocaine is a festering scandal in middle-and upper-class life. And then there are (hello, Everybody!) the jaywalkers...
...most flagrant scofflaw of them all is the red-light runner. The flouting of stop signals has got so bad in Boston that residents tell an anecdote about a cabby who insists that red lights are "just for decoration." The power of the stoplight to control traffic seems to be waning everywhere. In Los Angeles, red-light running has become perhaps the city's most common traffic violation. In New York City, going through an intersection is like Russian roulette. Admits Police Commissioner Robert J. McGuire: "Today it's a 50-50 toss-up as to whether people...
...additional infusion of funds lent an entirely new dimension to the endemic problem of corruption. Although Mexicans are accustomed to the idea that their elected officials will steal "a little bit," they were not prepared for the flagrant abuses that began to be obvious. To many Mexicans, the previous regime's corruption is best symbolized by "Dog Hill," an Olympian, 32.5-acre complex high above the Mexico City smog line, where López Portillo has built palatial homes for himself and his children...
...agreements." So declared Secretary of State George Shultz last week as he presented a new ten-page report that, for the second time this year, accused the Soviet Union and its ally Viet Nam of using biochemical weapons against native rebel forces in Afghanistan, Laos and Cambodia in flagrant violation of two major international accords. Since 1975, U.S. officials charge, nearly 10,000 people have died as the result of "yellow rain," a distinctive yellowish mist that is sprayed from planes or that bursts from shells and bombs, and then falls to the ground in sticky drops. It causes...