Obama disdains association with those bitter Bible clingers except to heap guilt upon taxpayers.

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Ricardo Salinas Pliego, the third-richest man in Mexico, disdains monopolies, dismisses minority shareholders and loves to trash the SEC.

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My pal Andy Kessler similarly disdains market timing, although he does keep his eye on tech cycles.

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Meantime, the boss disdains complacency: "It's a constant process of being dissatisfied with the status quo, " he says.

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He is a politician with no government post, a lobbyist who goes unregistered, a lawyer who disdains legal work.

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Mr Lieberman, who openly disdains negotiations with the Palestinians, has not explicitly threatened to walk out unless the freeze is ended.

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There's certainly another element in play, however: Apple disdains the gifting organizations.

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Wall Street disdains it for its slow and steady growth.

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Apple used to do printers but now disdains them.

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He disdains the culture of making money from money.

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Then we have the inverse snobbery, the one that praises popularity and disdains quality, where the book ceases to be literature and becomes simply a cultural artefact over which people bond, either in love or hatred.

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Almost everybody disdains quick fixes.

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