Word: abhorring
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Hasty Pudding Theatricals is a group of students from very diverse social and ethnic backgrounds who come together specifically to put on a show. We abhor discrimination against individuals for reasons of sex, race or religion. We also condemn the practice of psychological discrimination, whereby women or minority groups are associated by the media with certain stereotypical characteristics. We find offensive recent films such as Cruising, which portrays homosexuals as abnormally violent, or television situation comedies which stereotype numerous segments of modern American society. Our characters do anything but that; rather, they poke fun at the stereotypes themselves by illustrating...
...Saudis acknowledge that their security depends ultimately on U.S. power. To guard their independence, they abhor the thought of having U.S. bases on their own soil, but they would not be opposed to American outposts in Oman, Somalia or Kenya. The Saudis' first priority, however, is to build up their own forces. They are now confident that given the current cold war climate, the U.S. Congress will approve their purchase of 60 advanced F-15 fighter jets, though Riyadh is sensitive to any suggestion that the planes would be gifts. When told by a visiting Congressman that it looked...