Word: dismissall
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The label "acting white" and the dismissal of white values are bound up in questions of black identity. "If you see a black girl," explains Kareema Matthews, a street-smart 14-year-old from Harlem, "and she's black, not mixed or anything, and she wants to act like something...
One of every 4 cancer survivors has faced some form of job difficulty, ranging from reduced wages or benefits to summary dismissal. The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, which is being phased in this year, will give cancer victims explicit federal protection against on-the-job discrimination. That part...
Baker's casual dismissal of the refugees' claims is inadequate. The refugee project of the Lawyers' Committee for Human Rights condemned the State Department's investigation as cursory and superficial. Arthur Helton, director of the refugee project, countered Baker by asserting that the government has an obligation to prove that...
Furthermore, Turk's simplistic dismissal of the bells as "discordant," "incomplete and out-of-tune," "distorted" and "intrinsically flawed" is simply incorrect. The bells have been tuned and are in harmony with the Eastern scale--which places them at odds with our Western eight-tone scale. This is likely the...
But they have also been hearing a lot from Republican challenger Pat Buchanan, who has made five trips to the state since announcing his candidacy last month. Taunting Bush for breaking his famous no-new-taxes promise of 1988, Buchanan signed a written pledge to that effect and challenged the...