Word: malign
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...might deserve sanctions because it sold ballistic-missile components to Iran and Pakistan. The U.S. is holding up China's application for membership in the World Trade Organization. And the U.S. recognition last week of Vietnam, China's neighbor and frequent enemy, fuels Beijing's fears that Washington has malign strategic intentions...
...students malign the Coop most for itstextbook prices. Because it has a virtual monopolyin Harvard Square, they say, it jacks up textbooksprices to pay for other, less profitabledepartments...
...reality. Hallucinatory interactive dramas are encoded in synthetic feathers, and a person can waft away from everyday life by brushing the back of his throat with a feather tip. Fantasies range from harmless, biff-bam adventures through warm-and-fuzzy childhood memories, to varieties of porn, and on to malign alternate worlds that appear to be not just virtual but actual, and that permanently suck in vurt addicts...
...lobbyists. But it could also be a reaction against the increasingly abject spinelessness of politicians, a byproduct of the very same trend. Indeed, the one clear exception to the number's downward drift are the Reagan years. Aaron says, "Even Democrats like me, who believed Ronald Reagan was a malign force, respected him, because, damn it, there were things he really stood...
...institution is not so much malign as remote. The bride-to-be has just spent six intensive weeks learning its religious rituals and ceremonies. She has already participated in one of its quainter customs. Wearing a formal silk kimono for the first time anyone could recall, she joined her parents in their living room to receive ceremonial gifts (five bolts of silk, six bottles of sake and a pair of sea bream) from the grand master of the prince's household. His highness was not present. As soon as he received word that the presents were accepted...