Word: mistreating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Navy may mistreat people," joked an officer last week, "but never dolphins." He was trying to defuse charges by Rick Trout, a former trainer at the Naval Ocean Systems Command in San Diego, that sea mammals in a classified Navy program had been beaten or starved during training, and that two had died as a result of abuse. The Marine Mammal Commission, announced that it will investigate...
...resentment at privilege began to boil, and still simmers today. "I really dislike snobs," he growls, "pretentious people who mistreat people who have to work for them. I hate them." This anger congealed into a hard-edged populism as Bennett took a Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Texas, then served as a dean of liberal arts at Boston University, all under brilliant, acerbic John Silber, who was then undergoing a conversion from liberal to born-again conservative...
...willingness by the military to admit its role in the disappearances. Emilio Fermín Mignone, head of the Center for Legal and Social Studies, expressed a widespread fear that until the military considers itself subject to "law and morality," voters can never be sure it will not mistreat them again. While Argentine law courts are clogged with 6,000 suits seeking information on the disappeared, the junta has long sought to avoid the issue altogether. The discovery of more than 1,500 unmarked graves last October made that silence especially difficult. Pressure also mounted from civilian politicians, along with...
...hand, Atwood's stories are feminist because the women she writes about are active, ambitious, and often independent. But her stories go beyond gender politics to the sadness and alienation that afflicts both sexes Ind criminately: women mistreat men as much as men mistreat women...
...students alleged yesterday that the three police officers assaulted them during the arrest and continued to mistreat them during their detention at Cambridge police headquarters...