Word: dismiss
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...identify, who made "an implication" that if Henrickson didn't drop his lawsuit, they would step forward and testify that he transported drugs aboard Tyson airplanes. Nobody has followed through with the threat, which Henrickson reported to the FBI, even though Henrickson has appealed his case. Other Tyson pilots dismiss the drug-running charge against Henrickson as preposterous. Henrickson believes the threat was intended to scare him away from talking about the alleged deliveries to Clinton. He claims he's being blacklisted in the industry, a fate he says his former colleagues might suffer if they backed...
While some people dismiss donations to panhandlers as trivial, a small donation can be a matter of life or death for the homeless...
...adherents of this fashion-able dogma simply dismiss reasonable arguments made by conservatives such as Yale Classics scholar Donald Kagan...
...best students who are judged in the same category as not-so-good students, and it's bad for the not-so-good students because they get a transcript that people increasingly dismiss," Mansfield said...
Finally, those who dismiss Syria's potential to wage war alone against Israel miscalculate; past conflicts are a poor forecast of future battles. In this case, Israeli civilians would face a new threat: a missile attack far harsher than the limited Scud barrage Iraq launched at Tel Aviv during the Gulf War. Syria already possesses the most advanced strategic-weapons capability in the Arab world, and its chemical, biological and ballistic missile programs are proceeding on a crash basis even as Damascus talks peace. A battle utilizing weapons of mass destruction would invariably provoke a punishing Israeli counterstrike, possibly with...