Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seems curious that many accept the common wisdom that the Cambridge police force is generally racist and that its officers often harass minorities indiscriminately, but dismiss suggestions that the Harvard police could share the same attitudes and prejudices. As a rule, HUPD attracts the same type of person that would join the Cambridge force; generally local Massachusetts residents of working class origins who may be angered by seeing middle and lower income Blacks receiving opportunities that their children never will...
...Merrill Lynch investment firm who has bragged of his "35 years of experience in the market," derides Feldstein, who is on leave from Harvard, for being a professor who spent too much time in the library. Last week, after scared stock sellers sided with the prof, Regan tried to dismiss the shake-out as a "natural correction that temporarily interrupts a bull-market upswing...
...audience gets no real sense of the man or the era. Nixon's confession is so warped and garbled that it is easier to dismiss his ideas than to digest them or speculate on their political or psychological significance. We can't even feel sorry for Nixon, because essentially, he is just a caricature...
...downed U.S. Airman Robert Goodman, the attention sharply increased. After Glenn slipped in the poll standings, more notice was given to Gary Hart. But there is still scant coverage for Alan Cranston, George McGovern, Ernest Rollings or Reubin Askew. Stories about the "second tier" of candidates, moreover, tend to dismiss them as having no chance...
...gritty, often bumpy policymaking processes of his Administration. His lapses are more than a forgivable matter of mixing up history at a press conference or misrepresenting a trivial budget figure now and again. Reagan is remarkably disengaged from the substance of his job. His aides no longer dismiss as glib the theory that Reagan has a movie-star approach to governing. "In Reagan's mind," says a White House adviser, "somebody does the lighting, somebody else does the set, and Reagan takes care of his role, which is the public role...