Word: disregarded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Robert Moses was a Pulitzer-prizewinning study of the exercise of urban power, decries Koch's lack of vision. "The physical transformation of a city changes it for generations, for centuries. I see a city being cemented into place against the sky -- a city of monstrous buildings, with a disregard for human scale, human values. Koch is building a big city, not a great one. The Koch administration, I fear, will go down in history surrounded by shadows, the shadow of corruption and the shadows cast by enormous buildings...
Today, the politicians, professionals and industrialists who sit at the top of our society set a different example, one more reminiscent of the declining Roman Empire. The emperors' disregard for the law and their immunity from its enforcement produced a widespread lawlessness that disintegrated their society. Hopefully we will not go the way they did 2000 years...
...boys are nameless throughout the book. At first Vilmure appears not to name the two out of a disregard for names, an apathy. But as the story progresses, the significance of a name, or the lack thereof, becomes evident...
...society. Enforcement of contracts is one of the primary functions of the modern liberal state. What would happen if banks refused to honor their checks or the government stopped paying interest on savings bonds? It is disturbing that college graduates, the future leaders of America, pay such disregard to one of the basic tenets of our society...
...These measures will remain in place so long as Iran persists in its aggressive disregard for the most fundamental norms of international conduct," the president said in a statement...