Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Team members dismiss those thoughts, pointing out that if not for the constant prodding of Mainelli and O'Neill things might have fallen even farther apart...
...BEEN an almost Diogenesian task of late to find a Reagan backer on campus who can rationalize support for the President with arguments that: (1) do not smugly dismiss Walter F. Mondale as a "wimp"; (2) are more sophisticated than "I want a job;" and (3) do not include the words "optimism," "patriotism," "Olympics," "standing tall," or--and this is the killer--"What difference does it make...
...Mondale seemed at a psychic remove, Reagan worked at a physical remove, not talking to reporters, heading out perhaps twice a week to address rallies of his believers, to congratulate Americans for acting American and to dismiss the opposition-and, indeed, most complexity in the world-as being archaic, depressive and implicitly unmanly...
Interior officials dismiss the latest assessment of the environmentalists. One spokesman says that Clark is a lawyer and approaches problems on a case-by-case basis. "He did not set out to make a clean sweep, and he did not get rid of everyone that Sierra and Friends of the Earth would like us to get rid of," says Kallman. "He is required under law to consider all constituencies and it is, accordingly, a thankless job." Interior officials say they hope to be able to sit down with representatives of the Sierra Club and the Friends of the Earth...
...Walesa to contentions that the Korean Air Lines jet shot down by the Soviets was on a CIA mission. The issues in the Spiegel case probably are, as its editors said last week, beyond conventional proof. But the broader problem Goldsmith raised is one that knowing journalists cannot easily dismiss...