Word: lambaster
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...Critics, however, were quick to lambast the move as a brutal attack on worker's rights. They charge that Calderón targeted the electricity union for backing his political adversaries and protesting against his free-market policies, and accuse him of seeking only unions that are weak and loyal to the government. The deployment of thousands of riot police to inform his writ underscored such criticism. "The police and military assault on the electricity workers is a serious setback in the precarious democratic life of our country," wrote columnist Luis Hernández Navarro in the daily La Jornada...
...loyalties enough to seek favor with key Democrats to the tune of $6,750 in campaign contributions. Much of it went to high-profile Appropriations Democrats-such as $1,000 each to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi; House panel members Patrick Kennedy and John Murtha, who would later lambast President Bush over the Iraq war; and Senator Diane Feinstein-along with the many more thousands he showered on GOP members. "This ethically challenged behavior should speak volumes about the need for earmark reform," says Naomi Steiner of Citizens for Responsiblity and Ethics in Washington, a watchdog group...
Friends of mine lambast our peers for endless petty complaining and cynicism. But the last six months of a faculty up in arms should instead demonstrate that if we pick our battles, Harvard-style skepticism might pay off when it matters. When complaint is backed up by sound reasoning and productive action, from those who care and know the most, it is hardly unwarranted...
...Hall’s “A Collection of College Words and Customs.” Four members of the class of 1820—James F. Deering, Charles Butterfield, David P. Hall, and Joseph Palmer—were gathered in Hollis 13 when one suggested Deering should lambast his professors by delivering mock lectures in broken Latin. Hilarity ensued, and soon Deering suggested that the friends should invite others to join their revelry...
...rhetoric that surrounds this war is about anesthetizing ourselves to the ambiguities of language—because good language complicates more than it mobilizes, questions more than it condemns. In the quadrants between the axes of evil, it becomes harder to cast Saddam as Stalin incarnate, harder to lambast “old Europe” as terrorist-sympathizing dilettantes, and harder to see ourselves as the paragons of good. So rather than risking the ambiguities of nuance, our government spin-doctors new material, upgrading the “war on terror” to a “crusade...