Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Centuries ago, the effects of hormone decline were less conspicuous because so few women lived beyond the menopause. Now modern medicine has added 30 or more years to the female life span. And still, Dr. Wilson complains, physicians generally dismiss post-menopausal changes as part of the "natural" aging process. Their attitude, he suggests tartly, stems from the fact that "most doctors, being male, are themselves immune to the disease." As he sees it, the menopause is "castration," and he asks whether his colleagues would tolerate so casually a similar fate in themselves...
Last week, in the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, the company won its case. In a decision that was tartly worded, a three-judge Federal panel commanded the FTC to dismiss its order against P. & G. "The Supreme Court has not ruled that bigness is unlawful, or that a large company may not merge with a smaller one in a different market field," the judges wrote. "Yet the size of Procter and its legitimate successful operations pervades the entire opinion of the commission and seems to be the motivating factor which influenced the commission to rule...
...sent to the more than 10,000 hospitals throughout the U.S. Those that are found to practice segregation, he warned, will be denied federal funds. With billions of dollars of medicare benefits due to start flowing from Washington after July 1, few hospitals, public or private, are likely to dismiss his threat lightly...
Certainly, the generals had plenty to complain about. Indonesia's economy is a mess, proCommunists are back in the Cabinet, and Sukarno even had the effrontery to dismiss Defense Minister Abdul Haris Nasution, 47, leader of the anti-Red forces that thwarted the Communists' October coup. When the generals let matters ride, thousands of Djakarta students-with tacit approval from the military-went on a wild, three-week rampage, sacking government ministries, pillaging the Red Chinese consulate, and clogging the streets with their demonstrations...
...attack on the U.S. tradition of granting tax exemption to church-owned property, Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair filed a widely watched suit in Maryland that no constitutional scholar can lightly dismiss. Such exemption, she argued, hikes taxes for other property owners and violates the First Amendment because it amounts to taxation in support of religion...