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  • Disinterest in partnership does not mean that they do not wish to contribute to the firm and to be involved in management, but they are only reasonably satisfied and firms do not appear to be meeting their needs particularly well at present.

    Finding Balance 2009

  • Disinterest is probably too positive a way to describe their reaction.

    Stanton Peele: AA is Ruining the World Stanton Peele 2011

  • Disinterest plausibly figures in the definition of the aesthetic attitude only to the degree that it, and it alone, focuses attention on the features of the object that matter aesthetically.

    The Concept of the Aesthetic Shelley, James 2009

  • A calm Disinterest becomes all well-bred Persons who would be Rational.

    "This could be bad news for Hillary"... or not. Ann Althouse 2008

  • A calm Disinterest becomes all well-bred Persons who would be Rational.

    "This could be bad news for Hillary"... or not. Ann Althouse 2008

  • Disinterest in partnership does not mean that they do not wish to contribute to the firm and to be involved in management, but they are only reasonably satisfied and firms do not appear to be meeting their needs particularly well at present.

    Slaw » What Associates Really Want » Print 2007

  • Disinterest in partnership does not mean that they do not wish to contribute to the firm and to be involved in management, but they are only reasonably satisfied and firms do not appear to be meeting their needs particularly well at present.

    What Associates Really Want — Slaw 2007

  • Disinterest in partnership does not mean that they do not wish to contribute to the firm and to be involved in management, but they are only reasonably satisfied and firms do not appear to be meeting their needs particularly well at present.

    What Associates Really Want — Slaw 2007

  • Disinterest: Unlike universities, scientists, learned societies, publishers, or the National Science Foundation, Creative Commons is neither a provider nor a recipient of research science dollars.

    B2fxxx 2004

  • Disinterest: Unlike universities, scientists, learned societies, publishers, or the National Science Foundation, Creative Commons is neither a provider nor a recipient of research science dollars.

    Archive 2004-11-07 2004

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