Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...memorandum said that under the program over 8000 assassinations had been carried out in 1968 and 1969. Weltner feels that fear of disclosure by the CIA witnesses led the court martial to dismiss the case...
Donald A. Fantini, a member of the school committee, called in 30 members of the Cambridge Tactical Police Force to help dismiss school. By the time the Force arrived, however, nearly all stu-dents had left the school area...
...criticism. I am very suspicious of anyone who can condemn "relevant" theatre in the same book in which he cites Aristophanes. Has Brustein forgotten what was happening in Athens in 421, when The Peace was produced? When he cries for an art separated from contemporary events, does he dismiss Guernica, or Quartet for the End of Time, or, for that matter, Slaughterhouse-Five, because they spring out of a revulsion against war and fascism? What are his criteria...
Peterson did not dismiss the possibility that the number of Jews in each entering class has decreased in the past few years. "We go out of our way not to find out about an applicant's ethnic background," he said, "but a 10 per cent drop is not impossible. There has been a 10 per cent drop in admissions from several traditional areas, such as prep schools...
...officials dismiss the possibility of a Berlin-style airlift for the Cambodian capital. The Communists have not committed the troops needed to pinch off all of its road links at once, but they have hit each often enough to make highway travel risky at best. Northwest of Phnom-Penh on Route 5, rice-laden trucks bound for the city are waylaid fairly frequently. The closing of Route 4 spelled an end to the petroleum supplies that had come by truck from Kompong Som. Some fuel comes up the Mekong by tanker, but not enough to prevent shortages...