Word: heartlessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ourselves five, ten dollars a week--no chump change to a couple of seventh-graders. The plan worked great for about four days. Then everybody realized what we were on to, and the donations quickly--and deservedly--dried up. And it's not because our friends and peers were heartless elites. It's not because they had ideological objections to giving money to people. It's because they realized they were being taken for suckers. If a bunch of thirteen-year-olds can figure that...
...seemingly candid statements printed on the front of cigarette packages conceal a half-century-long intentional campaign to endanger the public for profit. Since a January 1954 meeting in the Plaza Hotel in New York City, several major cigarette manufacturers have been colluding in a heartless battle to deceive the public about long term effects of cigarette smoking. And the federal government has finally decided to take action...
...been a tough three years of trying to get a contract," said the same guard. "It's been a strain on everyone in the union having a situation without a contract. Some of the [University officials] are really heartless, but not the people at the negotiating table. Am I happy with this? No, but it's the best we could...
While I am not affiliated with the Living Wage Campaign, I think that its demands compare favorably with Resnick's heartless prose: "sour grapes employees...should be identified and retrained in the art of the customer service." At a time when corporate values seem to be encroaching on every aspect of American life, it is refreshing when Harvard is asked to show compassion and wisdom, to be something better than a business...
While I am not affiliated with the Living Wage Campaign, I think that its demands compare favorably with Resnick's heartless prose: "sour grapes employees...should be identified and retrained in the art of the customer service." At a time when corporate values seem to be encroaching on every aspect of American life, it is refreshing when Harvard is asked to show compassion and wisdom, to be something better than a business...