Word: flout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although their actions flout every rule of international conduct accepted in the West, the Iranian students are not unmotivated anarchists but impassioned believers. If we expect to protect our interests from similar fanatics, we must spend some of our billions on educating our leaders and ourselves about them--otherwise, our presidents won't know how to use the brand-new quick-strike force without getting burned. A mechanized division can be surprised as easily as an embassy garrison when its leaders don't understand the opposition...
...there. A throng of female bus drivers from Chicago convened at the Shack, and a group of nurses brought a retiring colleague there as a surprise. Many come simply to gape or giggle, but Montana also detects deeper motives: some visit the Shack, for example, "as a kind of flout to their husbands and boyfriends...
...Besides, she reasons, "You can get the wisdom of the old gray heads in lectures." McKinsey perhaps has a point. But more pertinent is the irritating freedom with which she and others permit their personal opinion to take precedence over Faculty-wide directives. By such retorts these head tutors flout not only the goals of this latest set of tutorial reforms, but the aims of all legislation passed on the subject since the tutorial system began. The earliest report on tutorials in 1924 recognized that professors were best suited to lead individualized discussions. A 1920s reviewing board--known mysteriously...
...professional woman with a family is that you simply have less time for the profession." Kreps finds enough time to be in the forefront of the drive to boost U.S. exports. Except in the rarest cases, she opposes the policy of withholding high-technology American exports from countries that flout the Administration's human rights and diplomatic goals...
...sale of stock, real estate or other assets). Also, Congress and Carter eventually agreed to reduce the total tax cut from the $25 billion that the President had originally requested to $18.7 billion, and to delay its start from Oct. 1 to Jan. 1. While that might seem to flout the message of Proposition 13, policymakers correctly judged that message to be a protest against rising prices as well as rising taxes. A big, early cut, they reasoned, would only fan inflation by deepening the budget deficit...