Word: contemptable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Syria's embassy in London, whose trial exposed the Damascus terrorist connection that had been long suspected but never proved. The U.S. supported Britain by withdrawing its ambassador from Syria, and last week Secretary of State George Shultz characterized Syria's role in the foiled bombing episode as beneath contempt. "When a country does that, it isolates itself from the civilized community," he told a Los Angeles audience...
Conservatives claim that the Supreme Court Justices whom they have targeted should be voted out of office for misinterpreting the state constitution. But it is these conservatives--in their willingness to politicize the judiciary and compromise judicial independence--who show contempt for constitutionalism and reveal their willingness to subvert government institutions for the sake of power...
...substance of Reynold's speech is shallow and easily refuted. But the precedent which Reynolds sets is far more frightening. Supreme Court Justices are not ordinarily the subjects of personal attacks. Merely by singling out and attacking an individual Justice, Reynolds reveals his contempt for judicial independence...
Foremost in Reagan's outlook is his perception that circumstances have changed in the U.S.-Soviet rivalry. The Reagan who called the U.S.S.R. the "evil empire" and chose to challenge Communism in Grenada and Nicaragua was driven by the sting of Soviet contempt, his own sense of alarming U.S. military weakness and the need to demonstrate resolve. The Reagan who now reaches out for arms accords is convinced he is dealing from renewed strength and can afford a touch of magnanimity, or at least flexibility...
Bonanno, 82, seems to have had second thoughts about what he triggered. The aged boss has left his Arizona retirement mansion to serve a contempt-of-court sentence in a Springfield, Mo., federal prison rather than give testimony in the Commission trial. The mobster turned author, says one investigator, "is hearing footsteps...