Word: dismissals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...housing dead? That same question was asked 15 years ago during a credit crunch when mortgage rates reached a then phenomenal 6.5% after hovering for years at around 5%. Even in today's market, experts are not about to dismiss the U.S. housing industry. High interest rates have made the market stagnant, but they have also created pent-up demand among the baby-boom generation, who are now in their 30s. New housing is currently being built at less than half the 2 million-a-year rate needed just to keep up with those potential buyers. Robert Sheehan, director...
Shaw regularly, for example, raises the question of religious influence on the revolution, only to dismiss it quickly for a number of unconvincing reasons. He notes the religious roots of the symbolism of the Stamp Act protestors, then trivializes it because the religious influence actually suggests "rites older than those of American Calvinism." Or he notes than non-importation of British goods developed into "a righteous, almost religious issue that recalls the politics of the Puritans," but this time he translates the issue into a "crisis of conscience regarding the propriety of crowd behavior." Shaw would have been better...
...over this film of Hitler's indescribable odiousness. Image is a declaration of faith in man and in freedom. Danzig is now called Gdansk, and we don't know what June will bring. But where there is fear, there is hope, and it's too easy these days to dismiss callously the strength of diversity...
...warned by the Council of Ivy Group Presidents that halftime shows would be censored by the administration were they not appropriately censored by the Band itself. The Band has not been warned; and, contrary to Mr. Kolodziej's claims, I have had neither the opportunity nor the inclination to "dismiss" any warnings the council may have issued...
...lower wages and degrade working conditions, especially for workers at the low end of the payroll. The biggest losers, according to Otis L. Graham, professor of history at the University of North Carolina, are those who traditionally made their living in the sort of unskilled jobs taken by aliens. Dismiss those illegal workers, insists Graham, and not only will blacks win back their jobs but wages and safety standards will rise too. Says Graham: "I see illegal immigration as preventing the economic phase of the civil rights movement...