Word: dismiss
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mitchell also said that Kane's mass e-mail was not a good reaction to the decision to dismiss him. Rather, it only strengthened his belief that firing Kane was a good decision...
Burton and his aides dismiss the accusations as a partisan campaign to distract attention from his investigation of the President and the Democrats. But Speaker Newt Gingrich and other Republican leaders are concerned that Burton does not have the probity of a prime-time presidential prosecutor. They fear that the pressure on Burton, who once re-enacted Vince Foster's death by shooting bullets into "a headlike object" in his own backyard, may provoke the chairman into saying or doing something else that could discredit the investigation. Sources close to the Speaker tell TIME that Gingrich is so concerned about...
...fast, someone might say. The human brain is a machine too. How can we dismiss Deep Blue as just a machine when we don't dismiss the human brain as just a machine...
...although most of these protocols fall into the can't-hurt-could-help category. Where he may get into trouble is when he wanders farther still, uncritically endorsing treatments such as cranial manipulation that seem like folly even to many alternative-medicine believers. For skeptics looking for reasons to dismiss Weil, this kind of at-the-fringes medicine provides more than enough...
...example, a system of courts (one in an air-conditioning repair shop). When McLaren declared himself at war with the U.S. last week, we naturally turned to Hylton for the inside story. "He's a Pied Piper figure whose rhetoric is so confounding that you're tempted to dismiss him," says Hylton. "But it's evident that McLaren has been able to tap into that nagging insecurity in America that has helped fuel the militia movement...