Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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White House aides dismiss these and several other questionable assertions as gaffes that voters are unlikely to notice, and point out instead that Reagan's general themes are well received. A partisan audience in Richmond interrupted him for applause 26 times in 23 minutes. Even in the recession-ravaged Midwest, it is risky to attack Reagan headon. Says Eric Kozenman, a press aide for Democratic Congressman Bob Shamansky in his reelection race in Ohio: "We don't even like to use the term Reaganomics. We say 'the Administration's policies' are all wrong. That...
That kind of "reporting" often prompts print reporters to dismiss their broadcast colleagues as "talking hairdos." Admits Woodruff, who zoomed up in eight years from cleaning film and clipping articles at an Atlanta TV station to covering the President: "From my first reporting job on, I found people were not inclined to take me seriously because I was a woman and because I had never worked for a newspaper." A senior White House aide describes Woodruff as "always a lady," not necessarily regarding that as an asset: "She seems uncomfortable trying to dig out a story, almost timid...
...certainly not for the rest of the world, meaning, implicitly, the historical tormentors of Jews, to presume to give moral instruction to the Jewish people. Begin in his combative mode strikes ugly notes. Last week his government even used the dark phrase "blood libel" to dismiss condemnations of the Israeli army's behavior at the camps. The phrase invidiously linked the critics to the medieval anti-Semites who accused Jews of crucifying Christian children and drinking their blood at Passover...
...course, a solitary album constitutes little on which to build a legend. Quite possibly, Crenshaw will be just another of rock's firecrackers, sparkling brilliantly for a few seconds and then disappearing forever. But his album bears too much promise, indeed too much immediate confirmation, to dismiss Crenshaw as a flash...
...suit was originally filed in August 1978. But because of numerous preliminary motions, including one to dismiss the case, the trial did not begin until...