Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From the perspective of the '70s, it is all too easy to dismiss America's past isolationism as inevitably misguided and foolish. As Selig Adler points out in The Isolationist Impulse, the doctrine in many ways is "woven into the warp and woof of the American epic." From the very beginnings of the U.S., immigrants envisioned it as a way to a new existence. "They reasoned," Adler wrote of the colonists, "that God Himself had intended to divide the globe into separate spheres. America was the 'New Zion,' and Providence had severed this 'American Israel...
Boudin argued a motion several weeks ago calling on Judge Dixon to dismiss the charges and hold several government attorneys in contempt following the government's release of letters allegedly written by two of the defendants...
...importance of the Governance Committee's work as a gauge of administrative responsiveness. But it is hard to discount the fact that Bok met with the committee for nearly six hours before making a final decision on the dean; by doing so, he made it hard to summarily dismiss Pusey's (Bok's) first formal solicitation of student views about the selection of a University dean as mere tokenism...
...College Administrative Board required the undergraduate to withdraw, but recommended to the Faculty that he be dismissed by a Faculty vote. Since the student has a previous record of University discipline for plagiarism, the Ad Board's normal procedure would be to expel him with no option to reapply. With a Faculty vote to dismiss, however, he would be allowed to reapply in several years on the recommendation of the Ad Board...
...letter. Pasztor was angered by Caploe's reporting of the facts. He was further angered by the use of a standard reporting ploy to gain more information than he chose to give us. He claims to have issued us a "warning." We never received his "warning," and we dismiss it. We believe in our reporting, and no self-appointed censor will intimidate us into altering it. SJP has raised the issue of free speech in defense of some dubious propositions; one of them is that a newspaper is attacking their freedoms by refusing to allow them to censor the news...