Word: disdainful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They also disdain the use of state money for election financing...
BOSTON--A. Paul Cellucci and L. Scott Harshbarger '64 share a disdain for the boxing match that has become the 1998 gubernatorial campaign...
...bold graduate can add distinction to a Chase Manhattan application with bird calling and scat identification skills. Why wait until schmoozing with a client on a Maine hunting lease to accrue tracking abilities when a multitude of outfitters abound in the New England states? While more dainty Harvardians might disdain a mass of blood-encrusted feathers on their Prada bird bag, there's nothing quite like the primal gratification of winning a hard-fought battle with a wily fox. And this fundamental desire explains why, in an age of manufactured food and General Wong's Chicken, people still return...
...well off, holds a prestigious job at a bank, is confident of his abilities and generally pleased with his own behavior. Invited to the court for the first time, K. discovers with an emotion akin to condescension that it is located in a slum. Often showing scorn or disdain for those poorer than him, K.'s attitude seems designed to irritate the reader. The persona that emerges by the end is almost deserving of the troubles imposed on K. by the year-long trial and subsequent conclusion...
...wave of Western capital that sloshed through Malaysia at the height of the Asian miracle in 1993 had just begun to recede when Mahathir began using the example of China to connect his disdain for Western economics with his hatred of Western politics. "China may be authoritarian, but it is better than anarchy," Mahathir said in 1994. "Business needs order. It needs to have a predictable future." He continued: "The sanctimonious pronouncements on humanitarian, democratic and environmental issues are motivated by the same selfish interest -- the desire to put as many obstacles as possible in the way of anyone attempting...