Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more complicated hereditary diseases, including sickle-cell anemia, diabetes and even cancer. Meanwhile, the increasing genetic adeptness of researchers worries some observers, who fear the application of recombinant DNA to human beings. Some extreme critics even evoke visions of Hitlerian attempts to engineer a new master race. Most scientists dismiss these fears, pointing out that the new therapy will be used only on patients' body cells; it will not alter their sex cells, and hence cannot affect future generations. "It's not a way of altering the genetic pool," says A. Dusty Miller of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center...
...credit, the salesman reveals his past to potential Vend-A-Bait distributors. Such is the spell of his silver tongue that a remarkable number of people quickly dismiss the information. In the blink of an eye, the pitch can slide from McClintic's shady years to his next project, vending fishing tackle. "This is going to be a barn burner!" Rare is the listener who then exclaims, "Wait a minute! Did you say LEAVENWORTH...
...Faculty A. Michael Spence commissioned a study of student honor codes in institutions of higher learning throughout the country. Anticipating the ripples of anxiety such a study would send throughout the student body, the dean attached to the report that innocuous and placating adjective "fact-finding," thereby attempting to dismiss any policy implications...
...story in mid-August verifying the broad | outlines of the scandal that the political implications for the French government became grave. The country's most respected newspaper, Le Monde was also an early and fervent supporter of Socialist President Francois Mitterrand. Suddenly the Elysee Palace could no longer dismiss the charges as mere gossip or yellow journalism...
...that "certain evidence, independent of the bare allegations coming from Rancho Rajneesh, tends to confirm that Mr. Sullivan was the subject of an assassination attempt" in 1982. Rajneesh also suggested that misdeeds at the commune were responsible for a 1984 outbreak of salmonella in that area. State health officials dismiss the allegation. Other charges followed: Sheela and her cohort had dug a secret escape tunnel under the commune's 64,000-acre ranch and had bugged numerous residents' quarters, including the guru...