Word: spitefully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spite of such broad activities, DSM's board still has to seek approval from the Minister of Economic Affairs for any expenditure of more than $25,000, must wait for a snail-paced Parliament to approve partnerships with private companies (recent examples: Dow Chemical, Pittsburgh Plate Glass). Many firms are reluctant to enter into deals that require excessive red tape and government scrutiny. Largely for such reasons, the Dutch decided on "privatization." For the time being, the government will remain DSM's only stockholder. But in all other respects, DSM President Antoine C. Rottier and his four vice...
...Absolutes. One trouble with this very humane-sounding principle is that it is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to know what, in the long run, will hurt others and what won't. Thus, in spite of what may often appear to be a sincere concern for others, it remains an essentially self-centered code. In his categorical imperative, Kant set down the opposite standard, a variation of the Golden Rule: Judge your every action as if it were
...spite of all this, the number of illegitimate children born to teen-age mothers rose from 8.4 per thousand in 1940 to 16 in 1961, in the 20-to-25 age group from 11.2 per thousand to 41.2. Some girls neglect to use contraceptives, psychologists report, because they consciously or unconsciously want a child, others resent the planned, deliberate aspect; they think it "nicer" to get carried away on the spur of the moment. College girls have been known to take up collections for a classmate who needed an abortion, and some have had one without skipping a class...
...Stimpson pointed out that Radcliffe's name is more familiar to high school students because of recent national publicity. In spite of this, Harvard receives a good number of inquiries each year from girls who assume that "a Harvard diploma means a Harvard admissions committee," Mrs. Stimpson said...
...spite of the consideration due the circumstances under which it was written, I must protest Martin Luther King's statement, "But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim...