Word: disregarded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contractors have widely ignored a DOD regulation requiring them to keep official records of government property in their possession. The GAO also found that some contractors have so much government-owned industrial equipment that it is either little used or used extensively for commercial work. Contractors frequently disregard regulations requiring advanced approval from the Office of Emergency Planning before using government-owned machine tools for commercial purposes more than 25 per cent of the time. One Cleveland corporation was lent a $1.4 million steel press at low rentals and subsequently used the press more than three-quarters of the time...
...patterns of events and emotions in this latest Asian crisis is monotonously familiar. There was first Korea's overreaction and talk of retaliation--unsupported by military power and strongly reminiscent of the belligerence of South Vietnam's rulers. Then came Korea's childish disregard for legitimate American interests--in this case, securing the release of the Pueblo's crew...
Civilian Shields. In the fighting throughout the country, the Communists, as Westmoreland pointed out, showed "a callous disregard for human life," attacking hospitals as well as military compounds, using churches and schools as defense posts and captured civilians as shields. In the highland town of Ban Me Thuot, the Viet Cong killed six American missionaries in a sweep through a leprosarium operated by the Christian and Missionary Alliance, leaving their bodies wired with booby traps...
...peace since World War II, thus producing a Balkanized world and bringing the danger of nuclear war much closer. Looked at in this fashion, he says, Charles de Gaulle's present policies constitute "an adventurist and irresponsible nationalism" that has already "helped bring the world closer to a disregard of the deadly facts of the nuclear...
...radical tradition is still alive: it is present here in this church. Those of us who disregard organized religion, I think, are making a mistake if they also disregard this tradition and its presence today. This tradition is something to which...