Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some blame must be shared by the companies that summarily dismiss workers hooked on narcotics. Without income, the addict's chances of paying for effective private treatment are reduced, while the odds against his completing the program at free centers is heightened. One of the few firms to take an enlightened view of the addict's plight is New Jersey Bell Telephone, which began this year to pay disability money to employees undergoing treatment for drug...
...continued market slide would make many Americans not only feel poorer but actually be poorer. It is still fashionable in some quarters to dismiss the market as an exclusive club for the wealthy. In fact, it is the world's least exclusive club. The 26 million Americans who own stock directly constitute one of the nation's largest minorities. Those who have at least an indirect interest in the market, through participation in mutual funds, pension funds and other institutions, number 100 million, or almost half the total U.S. population. The pensions that millions of citizens eventually will...
Sources close to the manager hinted, however, that if the council moves to dismiss him, the manager will ask for a statement of the reasons for the action, and for the public hearing to which he is entitled by law. No specific reason for the possible firing of the manager has yet been mentioned...
During the 1968 presidential campaign, Richard Nixon said: "We must listen to the voices of dissent because the protester may have something to say worth listening to. If we dismiss dissent as coming from 'rebels without a cause,' we will soon find ourselves becoming leaders without an effect. By its neglect, by its insensitivity, by its arrogance, our present leadership has caused an unprecedented chasm to develop in our society...
Because he decided to dismiss the charges, no mention of the defendants' arrest will remain on police records...