Word: flagrantly
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...FLAGRANT SELF-PROMOTION in the book comes as no surprise to anyone acquainted with Dershowitz's talk-show hopping, but it is annoying nonetheless. Even in this age of "alibiography," I expected the book to reveal some of the foibles, frailty and folly that make humankind an interesting species. Chutzpah has none of that...
...level that was 87 times as great as a blue-collar worker's to one that is more than 600 times as much. Asserting that Araskog "is one of the most overpaid CEOs in the world," Crystal blamed ITT directors for having "wasted the company's assets to a flagrant degree...
...reaction from the book's subjects has been just as hot. Nancy Reagan has thus far refused any comment, though friends described her as "profoundly upset" at Kelley's attack. Ronald Reagan put out a statement seething with outrage: "The flagrant and absurd falsehoods . . . clearly exceed the bounds of decency." A phalanx of Reagan friends and former advisers lashed out at the book, both in whole and in parts. Sheila Tate, Nancy Reagan's former press secretary, charged that there are 20 factual errors in the passages involving her alone. She described the purported Nancy Reagan-Frank Sinatra tryst...
...code] does not prohibit speech. It prohibits actions, including behavior which shows 'flagrant disrespect for the well-being of others or is unreasonably disruptive of the University community,'" the statement reads, citing Brown's code of student behavior...
...will recall, the U.S. Army invaded the nation of Panama and soon thereafter arrested its de facto head of state. The U.N. General Assembly swiftly denounced the invasion as a "flagrant violation of international law," but never mind -- for most Americans, the lofty ends justified the brutal and lawless means. We had to stop the drug traffic. We had to restore stability and, as usual where guns and flag waving are involved, democracy...