Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is also a question of tone. Women on both sides are repelled by what they consider to be the abstract, unfeeling rhetoric of the extremist opposition. The pro-family people are put off by some feminists who dismiss abortions as mere bodily functions. They are equally unsettled by the pervasive bias of the women's movement toward Big Government. Pro-family forces would rather rely on the private sector and their own initiative?that would furnish more positive proof that women have finally arrived in America...
Neither London nor Washington was anxious to dismiss Smith's latest move out-of-hand. Diplomats in both capitals, however, believe that any settlement, if it is to succeed, must include participation by the groups that have been doing the fighting. As one U.S. official put it, Smith's attempt to bar the Patriotic Front "is like holding elections in South Viet Nam without the Viet Cong." Declared Nkomo angrily from his base in Zambia: "As far as we are concerned, the war continues...
...smoke-filled-room atmospherics. Though he correctly foresaw Carter's troubles over energy legislation, he has blandly described the New York governorship as a major stepping stone to the White House-which it has not been since 1932. French journalists, unaccustomed to Salinger's anecdotal style, dismiss him as a lightweight. "I don't go running to him to find new information," sniffs a leading Paris editor. Counters Salinger: "Since French coverage of America has, with a few exceptions, always been either uninformed or biased, I've been able to fill...
Koerner would go one step further and abolish or reform the tenure system to allow schools to dismiss incompetent teachers and hire more
PERHAPS THE STRONGEST argument advanced against a Helms trial drew heavily on the complications resulting from efforts by Helms' counsel to subpoena sensitive national security documents to use in the courtroom proceedings, a move that might have forced prosecutors to dismiss the case in midtrial. This contention, however, does not bear up under close scrutiny. All requested materials of this nature would have been referred directly to the trial judge, who would have determined each document's relevance. Handing over this weighty responsibility to a presumably independent judge unhindered by political considerations would have proven to be the wisest move...