Word: flagrantly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...California's Hart: "Depending on your view of human nature, you aim for a voter's baser instincts or his hopes and aspirations. These days, you find that fewer and fewer people respond to positive messages." Coelho voices hope that the failure of some of the most flagrant ads will cause negative campaigning to decline. Well, maybe, but as Coelho quickly adds, perhaps the message of the 1982 results is merely that voters demand "more sophisticated" defamation. -By George J. Church. Reported by Evan Thomas/Washington and John E. Yang/Boston
...that they have a useful, if mainly symbolic, purpose. They are often the only way, short of war, for one nation to express its outrage at the conduct of another. Concludes Renwick: "To abandon altogether the idea of recourse to sanctions in response to acts of aggression or other flagrant violations of international law would be to reduce the choice of response to one between military action and acquiescence-an unattractive choice at the best of times and particularly so in a nuclear age." That said, Renwick cautions against any great expectations about what sanctions can accomplish...
...There is no question that the public is confused about the energy situation. I would like to clarify a flagrant misconception by making it perfectly clear that there is no energy crisis in the United States." Michael Halbouty Head of President Reagan's task force on energy...
...business in question is Carnation Company, which has been cited for flagrant violations of widely accepted conduct guidelines for U.S. companies operating in South Africa. The University has not endorsed these guidelines, called the "Sullivan Principles," nor has it established its own criteria for judging the conduct of companies in the troubled African country. It has, however, banned investments in banks that loan money directly to the South African government...
...employer screened my genes, I would regard the act as a flagrant invasion of privacy...