Word: unconcerned
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...Council has made strides in awareness, but it must not fall into the trap of thinking it has resolved the issue totally and, with a policy safely on the books, can lapse back into former unconcern. With that policy in place, it is time to move ahead on the more delicate matter of implementation. Primary among these are simplifying the complaint structures so women need not take an embarrassing personal problem through an elaborate bureaucracy and lifting the veil of secrecy that till now has cloaked the problem in an unnecessary ominousness...
...income. Nemy fills about 25 column inches weekly in the Living Section of The New York Times with a column that has very little to do with the "living" of most New Yorkers. As cheerful treatment of the trivialities of life. Nemy's column evinces a blithe ignorance and unconcern for the world's misfortunes. Elderly New Yorkers may he eating per food and locking themselves in unsafe apartments, but Nemy chatters on with the cheerful opinion that the hardest thing about growing old in America these days is the little white lies one must tell to keep...
...delivered. Differences in interpretation are not a matter of nuance, unless differing over a factor of a million is quibbling. That the planners for Suslov's funeral, a host of apparatchnik pressmen, and perhaps an entire popuation, could stifle the outreach of history with such an air of unconcern says something about human nature, and our ability to adapt to the needs of whatever sort of politics happen to entrap...
...hostage taking. Only once, when his Air Force C-141 transport dipped a wing dangerously low during an aborted landing at Andrews Air Force Base, was his homecoming potentially marred. When the plane finally touched down safely, Dozier greeted Vice President George Bush on the tarmac with characteristic unconcern. Said he: "It's doggone good to be home...
...TIME and author of The Eighth Sin, a 1978 novel about Nazi efforts to exterminate gypsies, writes with wit, subtlety and passion. Not all the ire is directed at the death-camp butchers. In passages as sardonic as any ever written about war-bloated Hollywood, Kanfer describes the unconcern of some successful American Jews for their doomed brethren in Europe. It is a part of the terrible secret that Fear Itself embodies in an exciting work of fiction...