Word: disregarded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Disregard previous orders. It's back to the future after Clinton this month sent Congress a military budget proposing to pump $6.6 billion into development of a national missile-defense shield by 2005. Forget that Democrats argued for years that such a system would never work. That was then. Now it's the newest item in their lengthening list of conservative takeovers. Defense hawks have been maddeningly one-upped by Clinton's adoption of a snazzy constellation of space-based sensors and ground-based missiles that would stand guard over all 50 states, poised to destroy a handful of incoming...
Byrne warned against overemphasizing such surveys, which may disregard differences between schools such as research and teaching methods...
...both ancient prophecy and that language of television commercials which somehow capture the religiosity of modern times: this ancient is modern trick is common in Herbert. Note also his lack of punctuation, typical of all the poems in Elegy for the Departure, as well as his readiness to disregard physical categories (e.g. "a grain of water," "a chord of light"). Through such inverted interest in the elements, Herbert recalls the most ancient pre-Socratic philosophers and simultaneously makes his postmodern move, boldly taking language to the brink of obfuscation in order to make the metaphorical point. Herbert's own oblique...
...applaud The Crimson's recognition that the impeachment hearings are the grind of a political machine rather than a fair or rational search for justice (Editorial, Dec. 14). By rejecting censure in favor of pushing for full impeachment the House Republicans have shown blatant disregard for the health of this nation and the will of the people. Polls show that 66 percent of Americans approve of the job that Clinton is doing. That is a much greater figure than Congress' 44 percent approval rating...
...right in claiming that "this isn't Iran" (Crimson Wisdom, Dec. 8). Indeed "this" is a place where "calls for structural reform" can be heard in the spirit of healthy democratic debate whereas the voice of political opposition within the Islamic Republic of Iran is muted by a complete disregard for human and political rights as we know them in the United States...