Word: flagrant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...STEVENS, the nation's most flagrant violator of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), has calculated that it is more profitable to break the law systematically and pay its relatively small fines than to give the workers the right to unionize. There is now a movement afoot to pressure Stevens to change its attitude through boycotts of the company's products. Today, college students throughout New England will be participating in demonstrations of support for J.P. Stevens workers. At Harvard, the Friends of the United Farm Workers, a group with a history of boycott experience, is spearheading this anti-Stevens...
...voice of the voiceless in society. Certain obvious questions follow: What does it mean to believe in and to proclaim God's justice? How should the churches work in order that God's justice is realized in society? How does the Church define itself in the midst of flagrant injustices...
...within the relatively narrow category of occupations where borderline dishonesty is fairly lucrative. In many instances, the very art of the lawyer is a sort of calculated disregard of the law or at least of ordinary notions of morality." Under the current code, he notes, only selected and flagrant violations result in a disbarment. Writes Schnapper: "One searches in vain for a lawyer disciplined for failing to give free legal assistance to the indigent, for failing to disclose legal precedent contrary to his client's interests, for misrepresenting facts to judges, juries or opposing counsel, or for using political office...
Although CAB Chairman Alfred Kahn had originally opposed giving Braniff the Dallas-London route (he wanted it to go to Pan Am), he moved quickly to defend the Texas-based airline. In a plea to the White House. Kahn denounced Britain's action as a "fundamental and flagrant breach" of the Bermuda II pact, which governs air travel between the two countries. He urged Carter to retaliate by suspending British Caledonian's flights between London and Houston, that airline's only service...
...Warriors held a comfortable ten-point lead with 3:38 to go in regulation play, and looked like a sure bet to advance to the semifinals of the NCAA divisional championships, when a referee ejected Marquette's 6-ft., 10-in. center Jerome Whitehead from the game for a flagrant personal, a two-shot foul...