Word: dismiss
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Monday, Judge Michael O. Miller denied a Yale motion to dismiss the case. The motion contends that this case is not significantly different from those that form NLRB precedent...
...Tuesday night after a colorful but one-sided contest against former radical and present-day activist Tom Hayden. At 57, Hayden wears the dark suit and close-cropped haircut appropriate to his position as a California state senator, but TIME's James Willwerth notes that voters apparently couldn't dismiss the mental image of Hayden as a 1960s radical: disheveled, angry, defiant. In the campaign, Hayden proved that he hadn't lost his passion. He attacked Riordan for his record on racial healing and environmental issues. Meanwhile, Riordan quietly painted a picture of a rebounding L.A.: "We've restored confidence...
Somehow, we must move the discussion of race to a level on which the exasperation of whites and blacks can be addressed, and some much-needed progress can be made. We must not blithely dismiss or oversimplify American history by believing that the scars of slavery were healed by the Emancipation Proclamation, or that the "I Have a Dream" speech somehow soothed three centuries of racial strife. Neither can we hold sons and daughters accountable for the sins of their mothers and fathers. We must embrace history. We must sit with our nation's sins, discuss them, debate them, transcend...
...course to do that. Button's team was supposed to go to Arizona. And Button went to Colorado. Deliberately changing the flight plan gets you kicked out of the military very fast." Air Force officials say that the bombs were unlikely to explode on impact, and dismiss speculation that the plane, nicknamed Warthog, was sabotaged or stolen for its weaponry. "The Air Force, quite rightly, is refusing to voice questions about Button's record," says Thompson, "because if a pilot ever innocently found themselves in a situation like this, that pilot needs to know that the Air Force...
...course, the easiest way to dismiss the Heaven's Gate cult is to write them off as brainwashed lunatics. But given the anecdotal evidence, it seems that many members of Heaven's Gate were not simply weak and deluded souls...