Word: dismissable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...agents who watched the hideous finale from ground zero adamantly dismiss the notion that they somehow started the inferno. "I saw three fires almost simultaneously," insists Sage. "There's no question but that it was not started by the tanks in front of building. That's ridiculous. I saw the tanks at different points from where the fires were." He, like others, had no choice but to stand and watch. "I can't tell you what was going through my heart," he says. "A combination of anguish, reflection and absolute anger for David Koresh. Because the bottom line here...
Americans need to dismiss the rhetoric of family values and begin once again to value families. We should reach beyond the partisan bickering and public policy squabbles to address the root problem. Viewing family as a noble endeavor, giving parents the respect we so easily dole out to athletes and actors, would rebuild the institution of family--the two-parent family...
Though Khasbulatov is still his main foe, Yeltsin landed his heaviest blows last week on Rutskoi. Charging that the Vice President "is categorically not in agreement with reform," Yeltsin said he intends to dismiss him from his position as supervisor of agricultural programs. Rutskoi has also discovered that his armored Mercedes has been replaced with an old Volga sedan, his security detail cut back sharply and his personal physician dismissed...
Harvard students shouldn't dismiss Powell's opinions; ignoring one's political enemies is never the best way to defeat them. Better to protest them loudly and openly--to counter Powell's abhorrent opinion with discourse...
...appalled that Harvard has so blatantly backed away from its position of moral leadership on the ROTC issue, and that it has been so easy to abstract--and so dismiss--the "gay issue" as having no connection (or none that need be considered) with the concerns, the rights, the bodies, the lives of some of the actual men and women who teach, work, and study at Harvard...