Word: flagrant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have either squandered credibility with exaggerated scare talk or strained credulity with prissy pronouncements. The media are culpable as well, for sensationalized coverage that has often served to glamourize the menace they are decrying. Then there are the social-policy conservatives who purport to see no connection between the flagrant neglect of the economic problems of the underclass and the current crack epidemic. And sad to say, well-intentioned parents can also contribute to the hysteria by viewing drugs as the sole cause of their children's problems, rather than as a symptom of family-wide crisis...
...moving to the right but a Mexico moving to the left. There is a deep nationalism and a sense of social justice among Mexican people that Cardenas has identified with in a very mystical and mysterious way. He has become a symbol in a nation that has the most flagrant inequalities and injustices of any nation in Latin America, if not in the entire Third World. We are not the poorest country, but we are the most unequal. Cardenas has become a symbol of the desire for equality in Mexico, or less inequality, and a symbol of the defense...
...blue-collar neighborhood of Aldine. He then expanded the drive, harnessing the muscle of police and prosecutors to close nude bars, massage parlors and so-called modeling studios across a stretch of Harris County. Today, thanks largely to Hurlbut, service roads and strips that once glittered with flagrant fronts for prostitution are clean. Hurlbut is credited as the prime mover in closing 60 sex shops and preventing dozens of others from opening...
...month overdue. In a departing act of bravado, Takeshita defied the Diet's tradition of consensus to push the budget through the lower house without the participation of the opposition parties. They had refused to take part until former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, in office when the most flagrant abuses occurred, testified about his role. The budget will probably become law in 30 days, and Takeshita will step down...
...campus 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...