Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coaches and tournament organizers dismiss the possibility that the consolation game will be eliminated from the tournament altogether. "It's more or less a necessary evil," says Joe Perlmutter, assistant director of events at the Boston Garden...
...country renowned for its diversity and pluralism, it is remarkable that we cling to the notion that there is an essential duality on complex political, economic and social issues. We dismiss out of hand the idea of a strong, viable third party. Yet a new group capable of attracting progressive elements from both the Democrats and the Republicans could launch a political reformation that would truly address our problems...
...rner said that the general had been mixing with "criminal elements" at seedy gay bars in Cologne for at least a dozen years, a practice that left him open to blackmail. Evidence gathered in an investigation, said Wörner, gave the defense ministry no choice but to dismiss the general...
...first time. South African troops came into direct confrontation with those of Marxist Angola, supported by some of the country's estimated 26,000 Cuban soldiers and advisers. After five years of tortuous U.N. negotiation, the Angolan-Namibian situation is still at a violent stalemate: Angola refuses to dismiss its Cuban troops until South Africa withdraws; South Africa refuses to withdraw until the Cubans are dismissed. Meanwhile, South Africa will doubtless continue assisting the insurgent National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UMTA) in its attacks against the Angolan government...
...guerrillas demanded an end to both projects as well as to all French aid to Khartoum. The hostages were soon released, a result, diplomats say, of secret talks between the companies and the rebels. The government claims its forces rescued the hostages, but most analysts dismiss that as face-saving...