Word: flout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...laws are quite clear that people under 21 are prohibited from drinking alcohol, and as ridiculously restrictive, as outrageously unfair as they are, it is not the role of the University to flout the law when 70 percent of its undergraduates are under age. Harvard is morally obligated at least to pay the law lip service...
...OPEC members believe the approach of winter and the seasonal demand for heating oil will help bail them out of this crisis, they are likely to face another problem in the spring, when demand falls off. Even if OPEC agrees to tighter output quotas, many members may continue to flout those limits. "When we make a commitment, we must keep it," says Algerian Oil Minister Belkacem Nabi. "Those in OPEC who don't respect their promises have done us much harm...
...refers to "the game of the clothes." If there is in fact such a recreation, then he and Sprouse have been instrumental in revising the recent rules of play. Acting cagey, Sprouse says he has "this whole new idea for fall." Gaultier's current collection suggests he can flout convention even while crazy. Natch-rally crazy. Yes, indeed. -By Jay Cocks...
...loss of federal grants and subsidized loans could costly add several thousand dollars more to these criminal penalties. In such circumstances it would start common sense to argue that the willingness of the University to offer a regular job or an unsubsidized loan could encourage disrespect for law or flout the will of Congress...
...suicides occur, finally agreed with a judge to put no more than four prisoners in space designed to hold three. In Texas, where until a year ago 2,000 inmates had to sleep on the floor, officials for one week in May simply stopped admitting new prisoners rather than flout Judge Justice's order. Illinois is appealing last year's federal court order to house inmates in single cells, which officials estimate would require $400 million in new construction. Michigan (like Iowa and Minnesota) has a law that automatically provides for releasing inmates when overcrowding becomes abject. Twice this year...