Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were negative. CDC tests found no indication of either plague or typhoid fever. So the search went on into more exotic terrain. Tests also ruled out tularemia (rabbit fever), a deadly tropical disease known as Lassa fever, and Marburg disease, a viral disease from Africa. Further screening seemed to dismiss fungi as a suspect; no fungus is known to produce the fatally fulminating pneumonia typical of Legion disease...
...pure a principle for fallible men. George III may be wrongheaded, they acknowledge, but the British monarchy is all that stands between the Americans and discord, disunity, and that brutish world of brutish men that the English Philosopher Thomas Hobbes envisioned more than a century ago. These skeptics dismiss as naive optimism the arguments of the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau that natural man is good and is corrupted only by society. Nor, they go on, is equality, as set forth in the Declaration of Independence, a feasible goal for any people. Man may be created equal, even...
...week the situation worsened when members of the junior class said they were giving authorities the names of literally hundreds of their classmates who, they claimed, had violated the code. The avowed aim of this rush to judgment: to implicate so many cadets that West Point could not possibly dismiss all the guilty ones without virtually wiping out the entire junior class...
Those who are behind, said President Ford, "try harder-and sometimes swing wilder too." Ford was trying to dismiss one of Challenger Ronald Reagan's wild, but nonetheless effective swings: his claims that the President and his old colleagues in Congress had allowed the Soviet Union to surpass the U.S. in military might. Reagan's startling victories in Texas and Indiana seemed in part to show that he was on to a hot campaign issue: whether the U.S. has indeed become No. 2 behind the Soviets in military strength. It is also a familiar topic in U.S. political...
...persistent man around. You scare the hell out of the incompetents above you." Now Silber's arrogant, autocratic leadership-one Boston professor has called him an "intellectual bully"-has worried those beneath him. Incompetents and stars alike, they are trying to get the university's trustees to dismiss...