Word: offends
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...being whose remarkable magnanimity has served Harvard in a number of areas, from endowing professorships to renovating Widener Library. We should all strive to be as thoughtful and generous as she. So don't interpret this as some diatribe against Mrs. Loker. Lord knows, I wouldn't want to offend some of you sensitive types out there...
...shouldn't they? It's not as if Ventura pulled off a political bait-and-switch last November. Minnesotans who voted for Ventura knew they were electing a controversial, outspoken man liable to say things that would annoy or offend large segments of the population. Indeed, for many this was precisely the reason to vote for Ventura: he was the anti-politician, speaking his mind without first taking a poll, pulling no punches. A vote for Ventura was a vote against politics-as-usual, as epitomized by Bill Clinton...
Bush doesn't do that--his anti-politician pretensions are harmless. He scoffs at statistics, but no one really minds; he swears in public, but it doesn't really offend anyone. And it seems like he's doing it on purpose, trying to cultivate an anti-Clinton image...
Clinton's trade policy, Bauer said, "has created a China lobby in America made up of corporate presidents hoping to enrich their bottom line [and] politicians afraid to offend these corporations because it would cost them donations...
...whether based on "business" or fears that stocking the pill will offend Wal-Mart's oft-conservative customers in rural areas, is it appropriate for a pharmacy to stop dispensing a legal medication? "Imagine, for instance," says TIME medical columnist Christine Gorman, "if for business reasons the company had decided not to dispense insulin" -- would Wal-Mart?s decision be ethically supportable? "This is a dangerous, slippery-slope situation," says Gorman. By the way, although the company will no longer be dispensing Preven, it will still be selling Viagra...