Word: odiously
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Logic is only one part of decision making, Rowan contends; it is often the daring, instinctual leap that can make all the difference. "Hunch is an odious word to the professional manager," he writes. "It's a horseplayer's . . . term, rife with imprecision and unpredictability." Yet the hunch continues to be a major managerial tool. Salting his argument with lively anecdotes and conversations with some 70 chief executives, Rowan makes an impressive and entertaining case...
...controversy continued last week. The Hollywood branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People accused the Motion Picture Academy of racial discrimination for ignoring the picture, while the Coalition Against Black Exploitation said that the academy had displayed courage in not honoring an "odious and degrading" movie. If history is any guide, neither race nor anti-Spielbergism had a part in the voting, however, and other much nominated pictures have fared equally badly. The Turning Point, for instance, which also received eleven nominations, walked away empty-handed...
...money nor all our might can ensure that they do not. We do not, in fact, have the power to order the whole world as we like, and consequently we do not deserve to bear the moral responsibility for everything in it that we find odious. Ira J Klein Center For International Affairs
...flame-thrower Dinesh D'Souza followed in The New York Times by implying that those who support divestment from South Africa are in fact condoning mass extinction and, by obvious implication, persecution of Jews in the Soviet Union. That charge, in addition to being utterly absurd, lent a new, odious twist to anti-Semitic-baiting by the right...
George's other responsibility is his late parents' retirement home in a tiny coastal village in Cornwall. He settles there because he has nowhere else to go, but he looks seaward and makes odious comparisons: "In Bom Porto, the Atlantic was milky green, thick as soup. At this time of year it swarmed with plankton, and in certain lights you seemed to see the sea wriggle with life. It was easy to imagine the first things crawling out of it and starting in on their colonial adventure. This northern sea was different, more coldly sophisticated. If you thought about...