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Word: scorns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rack of the Boston housing market reveals the disequilibrium of power which he is willing to exploit. He knows that individual students have no recourse against his harsh discipline except to shut up and obey. Only this time, Silber went too far; he was taken to court and his scorn for the law was, most delightfully, revealed...

Author: By Gary D. Rowe, | Title: Tyranny Across the River | 12/9/1986 | See Source »

French Premier Jacques Chirac did not mince words. Speaking to the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, his voice rising with scorn and anger, he denounced the "leprosy of terrorism" that has become a "systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face." There were those, said Chirac, who sought to excuse terrorism as a legitimate response to oppression, but such odious methods "rule out our confusing those actions with genuine resistance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France War on an Elusive Enemy | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

...also took back the news division title after the incumbent president, Edward Joyce, was shunted aside last December. CBS journalists were scathing about the role they felt that Sauter, a former journalist, had played in adding dollops of entertainment value to the news side. In particular, he drew scorn for hiring Phyllis George, a onetime Miss America, as an anchor for the ailing Morning News; George was later yanked. Said a news division source: "Sauter lost his reputation as being a dedicated news guy. He lost allies." Sauter defended his actions by declaring that "no matter who was sitting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporate Shoot-Out At Black Rock | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

Jackson promises to redouble that dilemma for the Democratic banner carrier in 1988. In speeches and interviews, he pours scorn on anyone who will move the party to the center. His particular target these days is the Democratic Leadership Council, a group of moderate elected officials mostly from the South and West. Jackson sneers that its initials, D.L.C., stand for Democrats for the Leisure Class. It is composed, he says, of "Democrats who comb their hair to the left like Kennedy and move their policies to the right like Reagan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping the Faith | 8/18/1986 | See Source »

...Queen is unhappy with her Prime Minister, it may be because she wears more than one crown. She is also head of the Commonwealth, a club of former British colonies, which some believe Thatcher is goading toward a full- scale crisis. The member nations' scorn of Thatcher's "negotiations, not sanctions" policy only deepened last week after an uninspiring meeting between British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe and South African State President P.W. Botha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All the Queen's Ministers | 8/4/1986 | See Source »

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