Word: dismissals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anguish at three-martini lunches, but the political dynamite of our society comes from chronic unemployment and inflation along with the futility of many poor neighborthoods. The current stagnation prevents both the public and private sectors from assisting the poor they once did. While Muller is right to dismiss the voguish speculation on taxation and capital formation as irrelevant to future prosperity, he provides no radical response to pressing social problems. He advocates a decentralized, grass-roots reform of labor, corporations and government relationships. Muller outlines a program of cooperation between these economic actors that would eradicate the misallocation...
...Costa and his wife; Cabinet Chief António Patricio Gouveia and two pilots. Almost immediately after takeoff, the plane lost altitude. It sheered a wing and dropped in flames to the street. All aboard were killed. Sá Carneiro's own Social Democratic Party was quick to dismiss any suspicion of sabotage. Airport employees reported that the Cessna was in such poor condition that mechanics had to help start the engines...
...sounds ridiculous. The scene, like many, is ridiculous. Every Man is a lot to swallow. But how much should we disown from our experience? Can we dismiss it as a possibility? Most of us will...
This is one work which truly breaks new ground, one of those rare texts that will set the standard for teaching the Victorian novel for years to come. It's doubtful any cynical professor will ever again be able to dismiss Jane Austen for writing "only" little domestic novels, or diminish Mary Shelley by comparing her unfavorably to her illustrious husband. Gilbert and Gubar have quite simply put women writers in their places, at the highest rung of the literary ladder...
...amendment would cost the state an annual $2 billion. Michigan, Milliken said, would have to fire 24,000 state workers, close 84 state parks and 180 campgrounds, eliminate 7,000 beds for state mental patients, end financial aid to twelve of its 15 state colleges and universities and dismiss 75% of the state police force. His statistics were persuasive...