Word: opprobrium
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...taking out Musawi, Israel's leaders knew that they risked diplomatic opprobrium -- as well as retaliation from Hizballah. So why did they hit him? Before Musawi took command of Hizballah in mid-1991, he was a member of its military command, which Israel holds responsible for such atrocities as the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut. Still, Israel entertained hopes that he might pursue a more moderate course, since he had close ties to Iran's more pragmatic leaders. But attacks by his militia on Israeli targets only increased. After two previous failed attempts on his life...
...effective is such pressure? It certainly gives the world community a ) peaceful way to express its opprobrium. But it seems obvious that apartheid was a doomed policy from the start. South Africa built a huge, sophisticated economy but did not have enough whites to run it. Business needed skilled black technicians and middle managers, and it could not get them while government policy confined blacks to hardscrabble shantytowns and limited their education. Moreover, repression of the black majority could eventually be maintained only at the price of more violence than most whites would tolerate. As long ago as 1979, President...
...West. Traditionally, the gibing has been mixed with an abiding envy of the California megalopolis' trend-setting dynamism. But lately no amount of envy -- or imitation -- seems enough to offset the vitriol that is being aimed at L.A. from every direction. Los Angeles has become the butt of abject opprobrium -- the "villain" of the West...
...most irresponsible idea of the 1990s," said Budget Director Richard Darman. "A charade!" harrumphed President George Bush. "Outrageous!" cried dozens of editorialists and labor groups. The object of that opprobrium was Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan's plan to reduce the Social Security tax. First proposed by the New York Democrat in December 1989, the bill was killed last October before it even reached the Senate floor. Today, however, the Social Security Tax Cut Act of 1991, an updated version of Moynihan's idea, is becoming one of the country's most hotly debated domestic policy issues...
...rendering her decision. While she acknowledged that sentencing Milken to community service would permit him "to work productively with others," she asserted that "a prison term is required for the purposes of general deterrence." Moreover, she added, Milken had committed "serious crimes warranting serious punishment and the discomfort and opprobrium of being removed from society...