Word: flagrantly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Posner's privacy rule thus dooms Mr. X to suffer because his sexual behavior, information the author considers legitimate for his employer to obtain, even though it could have no bearing on his reliability as an employee. Posner offers no remedy for such a flagrant injustice other than a grudging concession that "some presumably modest efforts to achieve a more equal distribution of income and wealth may be economically justifiable." It's not that callousness limits his ambition; only his faith in the decision-making capabilities of the owners of widget factories does it. Everyone is a rational maximizer...
...begun at least a fortnight earlier. When authorities published a list of 57 dissidents who had been "detained," it was plain that the list had been drawn up in advance: three people on it were out of the country. (Not on the list but determined to protest the "flagrant and brutal" crackdown and to express his "solidarity" with Walesa: Poland's Ambassador to the U.S., Romuald Spasowski, who sought and was swiftly granted asylum along with his wife, daughter and son-in-law.) Last week, after the sudden crackdown, a Gdansk doctor said he realized at last why so many...
Thus the people survive, indeed flourish, in spite of a vast gap between them and their ineffective governments. They survive in spite of a welfare system out of control, schools and social services in disarray, flagrant corruption and a bureaucracy so swollen and inept that it is mocked as lacci e laccioli, shackles and snares. A letter arrived two weeks ago at the home of one Giuseppe Baggio in Bassano Del Grappa. Baggio had mailed it to his mother from a military prison camp 37 years ago. Many Italians were surprised: the letter had actually arrived...
...peal." Khan turned on his heel and strutted indignantly to face the referee who had made that outrageous let call. Khan scowled, his eyes ablaze. Such a flagrant violation merited a point, not just a let, and the world's premier squash player wanted a reconsideration...
...ended, peacefully enough, the diplomatic uproar that began when Sweden discovered the sub on a reef in a restricted military zone only nine miles from Karlskrona, an ultrasensitive naval base on the Baltic Sea. The incursion of the sub, said Prime Minister Thorbjorn Falldin last week, was "the most flagrant violation of Swedish territory since World War II." Then Falldin added, "The violation was bad enough, but worse is the fact that the submarine most likely carried nuclear warheads [on its torpedoes], according to our investigations...