Word: disrespectful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Andrew Bates criticized COCA for what he sees as our blind eye to human rights abuse in Nicaragua. To in any way compare polling policy in Sandinista-led Nicaragua to the genocide enacted by ARENA-led EI Salvador shows unspeakable disrespect for human rights by making all offenses equal. Bates' piece also cheapens the lives of all Central Americans by submitting to the terms of a cold-war discourse (and along the way forgetting that while Soviet aid to Nicaragua began during Carter's presidency, so did U.S. aid to contras...
...members, were charged with taking bribes. In a place where millions of dollars change hands every day, the mayor is accused of accepting a paltry $6,000 from an undercover agent to let electric passenger carts run along the Boardwalk. "This town is like an aging whore," says Carver. "Disrespect me, but give me something -- just give me something...
...mean no disrespect to Mr. Marvin B. Tepper, a corporate lawyer whose generosity and previous commitments allowed three friends and me to make use of his reserved...
Reading Nice Work simply for the story is a waste of time. The characters are almost entirely one-dimensional. After introducing Vic and Robyn in the first section of the book, Lodge simply turns them loose--they almost automatically begin to lose their disrespect for one another, become friends and wind...
...violates every tenet of its anti-discrimination policy. Should Harvard University decide to allow ROTC back on campus, it will violate its own anti-discrimination policy as well. Inconveniencing a Harvard student with traveling to MIT--in council terms, known as "discrimination against the economically disadvantaged"--justifies this flagrant disrespect for all minority groups on campus...