Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Critics dismiss some of the bankruptcy talk as a scare tactic. Says Michael Totten, director of the Critical Mass Energy Project, a Washington conservation group: "It could be a bluff or a negotiating ploy. You can get a lot of mileage by scaring people. The companies have found a new weapon to force states to raise rates...
Journalists generally hold that compressing a person's remarks or improving his grammar is acceptable if it does not distort meaning. But Editor William Thomas of the Los Angeles Times said that he would dismiss a reporter for behavior like Reid's: "It is an indulgence we cannot afford in this business." Leonard Downie, who was named last week as managing editor of the Washington Post, said, "Shawn is apparently torn between personal loyalty to Reid and the standards for accuracy of his magazine." Declared Des Moines Register President Michael Gartner: "Anybody can be a good writer...
Unfortunately, the psychological element in chronic pain has often led physicians to dismiss their patients' complaints. Says Fields: "Many doctors and nurses believe that if a person responds to a placebo, the pain can't be very bad. This is a terrible mistake." Only about 5% of chronic pain patients are hypochondriacs or hysterics, according to Psychiatrist Anthony Bouckoms of Massachusetts General Hospital. "Pain itself is the reason people suffer; it is not psychopathology," he avers. And yet the most frequent question Bouckoms hears from pain patients is: "Tell me, doctor, is it all in my head...
...colleges have asked me to describe my greatest disappointment at Harvard. To their suprise (and dismay), it is not the lack of contact with big name professors. (I actually had lunch with Galbraith three years ago). For me, the greatest disappointment has been the facility with which some students dismiss others, the degree to which convenience regulates relationships for so many people here. What disturbs me most, though, is when I see myself doing the same...
...Herschel Shawmut has been reminded of his offense by a former friend, who has mailed him a blistering attack on what he was and what he has become: Shawmut the poseur, the TV huckster of musicology for the masses, the rich author of a popular textbook. The accused can dismiss these charges as spiteful, but he cannot deny that he is, nearing 70, a fugitive from U.S. justice hiding out in British Columbia. That, Miss Rose, is what he would really like to explain: it is a complicated and terribly funny story...