Word: flagrantly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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China must be properly contained in view of its relentless expansion attempts in the Asia-Pacific region, its flagrant disregard for human rights and its willingness to export missile technology to irresponsible nuclear wannabes. As Krauthammer points out, "Containment of such a bully must begin early in its career. That means building relations with China's neighbors, starting with Vietnam.'' It is China's jittery neighbors that are most eager to halt the dangerous expansion of this waking giant. Let's cease the failed policy of appeasing Beijing and re-establish full diplomatic relations with Taiwan, one of the most...
...Warren B. Eugene stands before a roomful of computer experts and Internet entrepreneurs in New York City and explains the virtues of bringing to cyberspace the one vice that is always sure to pay: gambling. His audience is a little hostile at first. (Isn't it illegal? Immoral? A flagrant violation of-of something?) But the crowd seems to know more about computers than it does about bookmaking. And as Eugene deals out the charm-and the facts of the betting life-it warms to the idea...
...architect, who died in 1959 at 91. Yet they also deplored his bohemian life-style, his arrogance and bombast, his leftist politics and above all his predilection for scandal. In 1909, to cite one notorious example, he abandoned his first wife and their six children to carry on a flagrant affair with a client's spouse. One result of Wisconsin's ambivalence: while the state has several houses and a still remarkable corporate headquarters (Johnson Wax in Racine) that bear Wright's distinctive stamp, it has no major public building designed...
...murdered and grotesquely mutilated. The carnage, screamingly reported in the tabloid press, inspires fear among the citizens and perhaps something else: "It was almost as if they had been waiting impatiently for these murders to happen -- as if the new conditions of the metropolis required some vivid identification, some flagrant confirmation of its status as the largest and darkest city of the world...
...Guatemalan human rights abuses had become too flagrant for even the U.S. to support openly. The State Department cancelled aid to the Guatemalan military (about $3 million a year) but the C.I.A. continued to funnel $5 to $7 million a year to them...