Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...admission led De Lorean's attorneys to request a dismissal on the ground of destruction of evidence. Tisa returned to the stand the next day and claimed he had not destroyed evidence. "You mean you lied yesterday?" challenged Weitzman. "No, I did not lie," Tisa said, "I was mistaken." He said that he had only disposed of "personal working notes" and that he had accidentally dated some entries 1983 although they were written in 1982. The agent admitted that he had been vehemently chastised by Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Perry for his careless testimony the day before. Said Tisa...
...Administration had hurriedly declared on April 6 that it would not recognize the court's jurisdiction over the issue, which arose after revelations that the CIA had actively helped mine Nicaraguan harbors. But Washington's lawyers joined in the legal fray after the court refused to dismiss the Nicaraguan plea. Whatever else might ensue, the Nicaraguans seemed to have won an initial propaganda victory by forcing the U.S. to appear before the United NationsŸsponsored body...
...discourage publication of the book, Wallace responds, "Everyone says this will increase sales." He is probably right. But given Kowet's own admissions about his failing to double-check some of the facts, questions about the accuracy of many of the scenes he describes are difficult to dismiss...
While his contemporaries fell in love or attached themselves to religion or politics, he stood self-consciously aloof, knowing that his teachers admired his linguistic ability and than a very small circle of friends enjoyed his contemptuous altitude toward life. With what predictable withering epigrams he had managed to dismiss those fools who thought the world was worth saving by a change in its political system: With what equally brief violence of phrase he had dealt with the ideas of the God-squad...
...whole, Pynchon's early works are flawed but disciplined exercises by an apprentice who already senses the sorcerer he will become. Pynchon's attempt to dismiss himself as just a regular guy is charming but a little disturbing, suggesting a weariness with the task of being different. He even includes a sentence that implicitly questions the wisdom of remaining in hiding: "Somewhere I had come up with the notion that one's personal life had nothing to do with fiction, when the truth, as everyone knows, is nearly the direct opposite." This might be taken to mean...