Word: flout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spigots. Last week in London, petroleum experts from non-OPEC countries met in an emergency session to discuss ways to mop up the glut. But OPEC is unlikely to follow suit. Saudi Arabia's Hisham Nazer and other oil ministers seem hesitant to discuss cutbacks, since some OPEC members flout existing quotas...
...Meredith Vieira joins the growing band of female TV journalists who flout the old rules by flaunting their glamour and sex appeal...
...salaries and pensions are involved, the paramount issue seems to be free agency, professional sport's current conundrum. The football players' latest crusade for easier passage from team to team coincides with an arbitrator's decree: baseball players, he proclaimed, have been the victims of an owners' conspiracy to flout a free- agent agreement long in place. Unlike major league baseball teams, N.F.L. clubs reserve a right of first refusal on the services of any player whose contract has expired. Should he sign with another of the league's 28 teams, steep compensation in the coin of draft choices...
Arms shipments to Iran made without the official authorization of a signed presidential "finding" is an apparent violation of the Arms Export Control Act; failure to notify Congress of the covert action would flout the Intelligence Oversight...
...Said he: "I wish to reaffirm that this administration does not intend to stay in power a day longer than is required to lay the necessary institutional framework to bring about a better and more stable Nigeria." The voluntary and orderly turnover of power to a civilian government would flout the norm in Africa, where coupmakers have all too often made similar pledges. Many observers, in fact, believe that Babangida's program will entrench military power for years to come. Still, he has promised to restore Nigeria to civilian rule by 1990, and last month he named a 17-member...