Word: blatant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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FINALLY, there are those who suggest psychiatrists raise their children funny. I, my brother Freud and sister Jung truly resent this implication. While we may be more able to recognize a blatant case of penis envy faster than the next guy, I don't believe having a psychiatrist father has significantly altered our so-very-important childhoods...
Some of the most blatant corruption has occurred in Tanzania. Last year a member of the country's parliament, Alli Yusufu Abdurabi, was discovered with 105 tusks. Abdurabi is now serving a twelve-year prison sentence for trading in illegal ivory. Indonesia's former Ambassador to Tanzania, Hoesen Yoesoef, was found trying to smuggle more than 200 tusks out of the country last January. Other illegal ivory was found in the hands of a Catholic priest, a leading local journalist and officials of the Iranian and Pakistani embassies. More than 280 tons of illegal ivory has left Tanzania...
Even so, the relative handling of the stories amounts to a blatant rejection of the poetic notion that each time the bell of doom tolls, it tolls for all mankind. The collective news judgment seems to be that each death diminishes the reader in direct proportion to the shared bonds of nationality, ethnicity, religion, type of government and the like. Pointing out this callous calculus seems to do nothing to mitigate it. As Columbia University professor Herbert Gans noted in his 1980 study Deciding What's News, network journalists in the 1960s tried to prick their bosses' consciences by assembling...
...midst of the August insanity, Mayor Edward Koch was standing on his last political legs, fighting off a serious primary challenge by David Dinkins, who is Black. Not surprisingly, the two candidates stayed clear of blatant racial appeals--such tactics are tantamount to political suicide in light of New York's diverse electorate...
...Brazilians, such pressure amounts to unjustified foreign meddling and a blatant effort by the industrial nations to preserve their economic supremacy at the expense of the developing world. Brazilian President Jose Sarney has denounced the criticism of his country as "unjust, defamatory, cruel and indecent." How can Brazil be expected to control its economic development, he asks, when it is staggering under a $111 billion foreign-debt load? By what right does the U.S., which spews out more pollutants than any other nation, lecture poor countries like Brazil on their responsibilities to mankind...