Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those responsible for the Nunn/McCurdy legislation understand that the bill will undergo many amendments and alterations before it is finally voted upon, and they are more than willing to listen to student concerns and ideas. I would urge Mr. Baer and other critics not to dismiss the bill out of hand but rather to help shape it into its most positive form. The present bill is not perfect, but if we work together, we can make it more nearly so. The future of the country is at stake...
...would be easy to dismiss Miss Julie as just another battle-of-the-sexes play and forget that August Strindberg's compression of dramatic form, use of prosaic, everyday language and intense psychological probing were innovations a century ago. Fortunately, a talented North House cast restores the play's power...
...Florida restaurant, dated her, borrowed money from her and asked her to set up a coke deal. Guzman's first trial ended in a hung jury last fall. Since then her attorney has been gathering evidence in an effort to prove official misconduct. At a hearing to dismiss charges against Guzman last month, Miami Federal Judge William Hoeveler posed a pointed query: "Is there any question in anybody's mind that this man is not only a thief but a scoundrel?" After defense attorneys began compiling Portell's history, the DEA removed him from its payroll. Guzman, who returns...
...risk that a candidate may not be prepared for these duties is not insignificant. The fear of the amendment's opponents is not that students are ignorant or incapable, but rather that a campus-wide election would dismiss these basic administrative qualifications as of secondary importance...
Palmore is quick to dismiss councils of the past as unresponsive to student opinion. This year's perceived activism, he argues, is the result of a unique set of personalities whose influence needs to be institutionalized. But for every one who thinks the council is staunchly conservative, another feels it is a group of knee-jerk liberals. In truth it is a representative group of the student population that tries its best to make reasoned decisions on a case-by-case basis. Campus-wide election of the chair will not solve the council's problems...