Word: blatantness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fiscal crisis came crashing down three years ago, the city had to plead with its employees' pension funds for a bail-out. Basically, the city was penalized for providing more social services than anyone else: tuition-free colleges, welfare payments above rock-bottom poverty level and so forth. Blatant mismanagement gratly contributed to the city's problems. But the main feature of the crisis was New York's scuba-diving tax base, resulting from the flight of industrial capital. Companies fled for many reasons, ranging from the ones which relocated in Stamford, Connecticut to be nearer their chief executives' homes...
...lived near MOVE did not resent the group as much as the middle-class whites living on the other side of the city. Right after the shooting, 300 infuriated black neighbors gathered at the scene of the battle to yell at police, throw rocks and inveigh against the blatant racism of the police. The protestors said the violence could easily have been avoided had the police left MOVE in peace...
...answer, as anyone knows who has been watching TV promotion spots lately, is ABC's new series Battlestar Galactica, perhaps the most blatant rip-off ever to appear on the small screen. The show ripped off, naturally, is Star Wars, which Galactica copies in nearly everything but wit and talent. As a result, even before the show premieres this Sunday, it has been caught up in legal controversy...
...Harvard gave the black brickworker subcontractor "a horrendous time" even though he did a very good job. He says Harvard claimed that he didn't have a track record and the architect wrote the University recommending in so many words that he not be hired. "I think it was blatant racism," Cruz adds...
...longtime protégé of late Dictator Rafael Trujillo, Balaguer was both a brilliant and ruthless politician. He kept his country at peace for twelve years. He launched a huge building program and virtually invented Dominican tourism, now a $90 million industry. But he permitted blatant corruption, and in recent years he allowed the economy, already suffering from a sharp drop in sugar prices, to falter. Of the country's 1.4 million workers, 20% are unemployed...