Word: shrug
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...businesses at between 1/8% and 1/4% below the going rate at American banks. Says David Lough, a chief executive with London-based National Westminster Bank: "The Japanese take a very long-term view of markets. They are quite prepared to loss-lead in the early stages." But Japanese bankers shrug off the criticism. Says Hagura: "You always get accused of undercutting when you're expanding...
...South Africa and the West. We believe the strategy of the West is not to give South Africa any credit, in any circumstances. You in the West are blind and insensitive to the possibility of the South African Communist Party ruling this country. You will shrug your shoulders and say, "Well, it is better than apartheid." Maybe. But you are not concerned about what the results would be and what would happen to the rest of Africa. In Mozambique and Angola, the facts are readily available of the repression, the suffering, the dying in these countries after nine years...
...sure, many U.S. travelers tend to shrug at the terrorism panic. "If you're going to run scared, you may as well shut yourself in the bathroom and have someone feed you through the door," says Paul Barton, an Atlanta clothing sales executive. Barton visited Rome with his wife Joan last week to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary...
PRACTICALLY NO OTHER issue confronting a University or community suffers such a wild problem of relativity. What one woman views as harassment another views as a simple joke that anyone should be able to shrug off. What one man views as gallant, another woman views as an affront. Nevertheless clear trespasses occur, as well as graver incidents. Trying to deal with sexual harassment is trying to teach a large group of people sensitivity to nuances and facets of human behavior that to various people are inconceivable, silly, overly sensitive, or a matter of human dignity...
While many letter recipients shrug those claims off as propoganda, Crimson oarsmen say they're realistic...