Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...entirely different relationship" had now been established between himself and Gorbachev. To place too much significance on the wonders that can come from more amiable relations and personal rapport would be foolish and would dangerously ignore the vicissitudes of Soviet-American relations since World War II. Yet to dismiss the opportunity created by the vigorous Soviet leader who came calling last week would be equally foolish, and perhaps just as dangerous...
This has done nothing more than exacerbate the situation, allowing both groups to blame each other and the administration for trying to restrict free speech at Harvard, and allowing the administration to dismiss student concerns as immature and uninformed. This vicious circle can only be broken through a change in the basic university policy...
...Nixon and Gorbachev, SDI was "the only major substantive issue we discussed." Nixon's memo summarized Gorbachev's forceful objections to the program in a way that seemed calculated to make it difficult for Reagan to dismiss them as unreasonable...
...striking example of the difference: in separate cases, Bork and Kennedy ! both ruled that the Navy could dismiss homosexuals from the service, but for very different reasons. Bork took the occasion to attack a long line of Supreme Court decisions reading into the Constitution a right to privacy. Kennedy, in contrast, noted that homosexuality "might be constitutionally protected activity in some other contexts," but not in the Navy, which has a special need to maintain order among men forced into close contact with one another. He added that the regulations requiring discharge of homosexuals, though not unconstitutional given the situation...
...country cares about the rights of women. Fedders, the former enforcement director of the Securities and Exchange Commission, resigned two years ago after his divorce blew into a public furor when he confessed to beating his wife repeatedly during their 18-year marriage. But before the "mainstream" could dismiss John Fedders as an aberration, the Maryland Courts stepped in. Late last month, the state rewarded him for his actions--and dampened whatever satisfaction Americans take as members of a society that has progressed in the area of equal rights...