Word: flagrantly
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Japan displays arrogance in its flagrant disregard of the International Whaling Commission's ban on sperm-whale hunting. The U.S., however, is equally at fault in deciding to sidestep its own statutes and "cut a deal" with the Japanese...
Although the government tolerates Peking's youthful money-changers, it cracked down on more flagrant speculators. The party newspaper People's Daily pointedly reported the fate of entrepreneurs in Xian who had managed a quick $7,600 profit by gouging buyers of woolen blankets; the merchants were punished with heavy fines. Storeowners in Peking who had hiked prices on 14-in. color TV sets to make an extra $100 profit were fined and reprimanded publicly. "This ill wind of arbitrary price rises must be resolutely checked," the paper insisted...
However. many of these same critics are quick to note that in his last year in Area B. Johnson brought about considerable improvements in the police protection in Area B. While drug abuse continues to he a severe problem in the area. police have climinated some of the most flagrant examples of abuse...
...latter of whom had been in disarray since the days of President Coolidge. But this year a new group of fundamentalists promises to have an important hand in opposing Reagan. That is, a new constituency of democratically minded citizens who, one hopes, will nay say Reagan's flagrant disregard for the spirit of the welfare state and the rights of free speech in America...
News of the assassination spread quickly. Lebanon's President, Amin Gemayel, expressed his condolences to U.S. Ambassador Reginald Bartholomew. Former Prime Minister Saeb Salam, a leader in the effort to unite the country's warring factions, called the murder "a flagrant disregard for values and an illustration of how seriously security has deteriorated." Particularly vulnerable at the moment are individual Americans and Frenchmen, partly because the terrorists are finding it increasingly difficult to penetrate the military bases and thus are turning their guns on relatively unprotected civilian targets. Two weeks ago gunmen on a motorbike shot and slightly...