Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heard going on around him exasperated the preconceived views of his European civilization. To contemplate revolutions from the distance of the Parisian Boulevards was quite another matter. Here on the spot it was not possible to dismiss their tragic comedy with the expression, "Quelle farce...
There is little doubt that a tide of militancy is building up in other Caribbean countries as well. Many West Indians maintain that black power against black governments makes little sense. But militants dismiss their present leaders as "Afro-Saxons" and press for revolutionary change. In response, West Indian governments have resorted to a wide range of precautionary measures. The Jamaican government banned the works of Malcolm X. Bermuda canceled a schoolboy sports meet to avoid the danger of a racial incident, and Trinidad reportedly refused stopover privileges to one of her most illustrious native sons, Stokely Carmichael. This...
Mere Parenthesis. Some Italians dismiss Mussolini out of hand. Benedetto Croce called him "a mere parenthesis in Italian history." But that ignores the fact that Mussolini was in power for 20 years, a fifth of Italy's span as a modern nation and longer than any Premier before or since...
that the University Statutes be amended to allow students to sit on committees which consider student disciplinary cases (the Fifth Statute has been interpreted in the past to forbid the Faculties from delegating their disciplinary power to dismiss students...
Open Admission. A commonly invoked ground for dismissal is the congressional authorization to dismiss for "such cause as will promote the efficiency of the service." Until a few years ago, the Government usually regarded even the possibility of unfavorable publicity as a threat to efficiency. Thus an unmarried woman was fired by the post office for becoming pregnant-a condition that the department's review board later found to be an insufficient cause. The Civil Service Commission retains other notions of convention. While it ignores most violators of fornication laws, it investigates male homosexuals more often than lesbians, whom...