Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...everyone was so quick to dismiss the discovery. Scientists from the University of Tokyo took a look at the substance. Says Muller: "The Japanese weren't smiling, and they confirmed it. Then the United States sat up." By the end of the year, confirmation had come from China and the U.S., and suddenly a nearly moribund branch of physics was the hottest thing around. Large industrial and government laboratories jumped in; so did major universities. At Bell Labs, a team led by Bertram Batlogg and Ceramist Cava had launched their own program of alchemical tinkering. Soon they had manufactured...
Adler's critics, of whom there are many, dismiss him as a hip shooter, the fastest opinion west of the Hudson but not worth serious attention. Yet Leon Botstein, president of Bard College in New York, admires Adler's contentiousness. Adler has fought for the idea, says Botstein, that thought "is too important to be left to the Ph.D.s." Declares Ernest Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching: "He's taken cherished institutions by the scruff of the neck and said, 'Enough...
...Friday, state Supreme Court Justice Stephen Crane, the trial judge, refused a defense request to dismiss or at least delay the trial. Goetz's lawyers charged that the prosecution illegally withheld information favorable to the defense from the grand jury that indicted...
...long and hard. Most of the Hollywood community is publicly rooting for the newcomer (largely because it offers another market for programming), but privately, in the words of one producer, "skepticism is running very high. The money in this town is on failure." No one, however, is ready to dismiss Murdoch's bold venture. "It's well financed, it's well conceived, and it's got a guy with deep pockets," says Edward Atorino, media analyst at Smith Barney. Murdoch expects to spend $150 million over the next two years and does not anticipate making money for at least four...
...media, by priests who would like to credit his miracles to the intervention of the school's namesake in order to have her declared a saint (she already has one miracle to her credit; she needs two more for sainthood), by other priests who would like to dismiss his miracles because he is an atheist and by doctors who want to examine his remarkable recuperative abilities. Vic falls off a 40-foot building and suffers only cuts and bruises. He is not even aware that the has an inoperable brain tumor that has spontaneously gone into remission...