Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Indians have seen countless treaties broken, their lands diminished from 138 million acres in 1887 to 55 million acres today, their water diverted. They are convinced that the Government is determined eventually to dismiss the whole problem by terminating all reservations. Long a favorite white liberal policy, based on the assumption that all minorities will thrive by being assimilated into the mystical American melting pot, termination of the reservations...
...Administration may publicly dismiss antiwar protesters. Privately it can hardly ignore them, as witness various reactions reported in Avant-Garde magazine. "I'm against the war in Viet Nam," says David Laird, son of Defense Secretary Melvin. James Westmoreland, son of the Army Chief of Staff, "wouldn't want to serve in Viet Nam." And so it goes, through John Resor, son of Army Secretary Stanley Resor; Lindsay McKelvie, stepdaughter of CIA Boss Richard Helms; and Lincoln Chafee, son of Navy Secretary John Chafee. Avant-Garde suggests that "all ten of their fathers resign immediately and nominate their...
...rated not only on the quantity of goods they produced but also on the capitalist criterion of profit: return on invested capital. Factory managers were to have more freedom to decide what to produce, and to make contracts directly with buyers and suppliers. Managers were to be encouraged to dismiss unneeded workers...
There is a whole lexicon of rationalization for the working class' (a weak and hackneyed term, but a connotative one) seemingly illogical hatred of cultural/political radicals. "False consciousness," "Mass-media indoctrination," "Counter-revolutionary schooling"-I have used them all to glibly dismiss red-neckism. These polemies are particularly convenient because they can be used, in one form or another, to ignore just about any mass consensus that is adverse to radical programs...
eight students were acquitted because of insufficient evidence against them. Dean May-who brought charges against all the students-asked that charges be dropped in two cases, and in six others the Committee decided to dismiss the case...