Word: callously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What is remarkable, is that tobacco companies have remained callous to the needs of the public. While cigarettes that are lower in nicotine content and filters were developed they didn't substantially reduce the risk to a similar extent that the soft drinks were reduced. A simple filter could be casually compared to light beer a way of diluting the strength of the product, but not to the point of reducing health risks. If the tobacco companies were actually acting on good faith, they would long ago have developed a better product...
...might view the University's actions as merely callous and unjust. However, there have been persistent reports that the University has harassed students and otherwise violated their civil rights (including by wiretapping). Such charges are serious and call for the speediest possible resolution. Should they be substantiated, one hopes that Harvard will be brave enough to admit to its mistakes and to make appropriate apologies and restitution to the victims. Harvard owes its alumni and students a thorough public explanation. James A. Glazier '84 Gary L. Ivens '84 John Bechhoefer '82 Daniel H. Reich...
...exist. Therefore, if a student must wait until the first weekend, he or she must live under hindering circumstances and still perform to the academic standards that Harvard demands. I am sure I do not need to add that this would be very, very difficult and is surely a callous demand...
...urge you, in the strongest terms, to reconsider and appropriately reform Harvard College's policy of not providing meals for upperclass men and women during the week before registration. This policy is a burden that each and every student is forced to bear. It is callous and unnecessary. This suggests to me that either this policy is a mere oversight or that it is a nickel-and-dime scheme that places a cruel strain on many students' limited budgets...
White interviewed crime victims' relatives, police officers and academics in New York and other Eastern cities. In Chicago, Correspondent Don Winbush reported from neighborhoods afflicted by youth-gang violence. He observes, "All around me were decent, hardworking, caring, strong-willed people. How could senseless, callous acts of violence erupt so frequently...