Word: dismissals
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...Shultz and his colleagues quickly add that the improvement in Soviet behavior is in response to American firmness. State Department officials dismiss talk about Soviet "initiatives" or a Soviet "peace offensive," since those phrases suggest that Mikhail Gorbachev is leading the way toward a more tranquil future. "Insofar as Gorbachev is now more peacefully inclined," says Richard Solomon, director of the State Department's Policy Planning Staff, "it's because he's butting his head up against new realities, notably including the Reagan Doctrine...
Walsh gave one big reason for asking U.S. District Court Judge Gerhard Gesell to dismiss charges of conspiracy and theft of Government property against the ex-Marine: intractable problems in protecting classified information contained in documents that both the prosecution and the defense have said are essential to their efforts. Said Walsh: "A continuing problem in the case has been the protection of national-security information in light of this defendant's insistence on disclosing large quantities of such information at trial." Gesell is likely to approve Walsh's request this week...
...political cost. The new President could claim to have fulfilled his campaign pledge to meet the deficit-cutting targets without new taxes, but avoid the need to identify specific programs for the budget ax. That is precisely why key Democrats like Mitchell and House Budget Committee Chairman Leon Panetta dismiss the vague outline as a political ploy. Last week even some Republican officials urged Darman and Bush to go a half-step further and list "broad proposals" to reform Medicare and farm subsidies. But like any smart cardplayer, Bush has no intention of showing his hand...
...global peace-keeping force and international enforcer of human rights seemed like what most Americans would expect from a speech by Woodrow Wilson or John F. Kennedy than a Kremlin head. And his downplaying of ideological differences among nations demonstrates a new willingness to dismiss Marxist ideology calling for world revolution and to adopt a more pragmatic approach to foreign policy...
According to a student in Literature and the Arts C-43, "The Medieval Court," Professor of German Eckehard Simon said when the power went out, "Well I guess if the clock stopped we can continue to have class forever." But the student said that Simon was forced to dismiss the class early because, without electricity, he could not play the music that was part of the lecture...