Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...easy to dismiss the free enterprise zone plan out of hand because it does not conform to traditional Democratic ideas of how unemployment should be confronted. Reagan, however, is not about to endorse Humphrey-Hawkins, and realistically, Congress is not about to pass it. The people who are suggesting enterprise zones were elected with a mandate to change the New Deal approach to social services. The conservative plan may fail totally, and then we'll be rid of it, but as long as it has noble intentions--as this one seems to--it should be allowed to fail honestly...
...that Lech Walesa and Solidarity-the real Polish united workers' party-have represented not only to the Communist regime of their own country but to its prototype and master that watches, waits, worries and issues warnings from across the border in the Soviet Union. The Kremlin may still dismiss the Poles as indolent dreamers, but the whole world knows better. Even if their stubborn defiance ends tragically, the Poles have proved themselves tough, determined and courageous enough not to work for a system that does not work for them-and to work for something better...
...beginning of the end of that system everywhere, including, eventually, in the U.S.S.R. President Ronald Reagan proclaimed in a speech at the University of Notre Dame last May: "The West won't contain Communism; it will transcend Communism. It won't bother to denounce it; it will dismiss it as some bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages are even now being written...
...maybe just rub each other the wrong way. In Four Friends, a picaresque panorama of life in the turbulent 1960s, they seem to have done a little of both. The film is ambitious, messy, moving, silly, impossible to accept on its own lofty terms, almost as difficult to dismiss...
...that Reagan's across-the-board cuts in federal programs fail to distinguish between those that are ineffective and those that work well to meet the minimal needs of the poor. Republican Mayor William Hudnut of Indianapolis endorsed the trend toward decentralization of government, but warned: "You cannot dismiss the poor. It's like saying 'Let them eat cake' when they don't even have bread." Protested Cleveland's Republican Mayor George Voinovich: "If you're going to cut programs it should be done with a scalpel and not a meat ax . . . Otherwise...