Word: dismissals
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...have no such skills or they just lack the nerve to issue dire warnings. Being the bearer of bad news can be professionally risky, since optimism sells better than pessimism. Government forecasters are also shy about raising red flags on the economy because of the political ramifications. Politicians generally dismiss talk of an economic downturn, preferring instead to highlight prosperity--at least if they want to get re-elected. Asks economist Prakash Loungani at the International Monetary Fund: "How good are these forecasters at predicting the end of a boom? Not very. Only two of the 60 recessions that occurred...
...figurative traditional painting," concedes art critic David Lee, editor of the Jackdaw arts newsletter and a former editor of the London-based Art Review. "The problem with Kinkade's work is that he's not actually a very good painter." But unlike some members of the art establishment who dismiss Kinkade as a purely commercial phenomenon, Lee thinks that because of his success, Kinkade deserves to be taken seriously. "I wouldn't have said that what he's doing, simply because he's clamoring for the lowest common denominator of taste, is any worse than what Tracey Emin does when...
...Jews’ finally having power to defend themselves is nothing to mourn. Israel faces the challenge of using military power to protect its citizens in a moral way, considering the realities of a complex world. We must judge Israel’s decisions on this basis, and not dismiss its claims simply because it is the more powerful party in this particular conflict...
Still, PSLM faces the most opposition not from an angry president, but from their annoyed peers. Their tactics are dismissed as childish grandstanding. Compromise and deliberation, that’s how Harvard students want conflicts resolved. Unfortunately, it is the Harvard students who dismiss PSLM’s actions out of hand who are being childish, and it is they who are displaying a lack of deliberation...
...been easy, during Ariel Sharon's election campaign, to dismiss as alarmist - even hysterical - his opponent's warnings that the old soldier would plunge Israel back into war. But Monday's bombing of a Syrian position in Lebanon, coming on top of three weeks of escalated military activity against the Palestinians, certainly suggests that Israeli reservists shouldn't be too surprised if they find themselves spending more time with their units in the near future. Three Syrian soldiers were reported killed and a number were injured in the air strike on a Syrian radar facility near Beirut, bombed in retribution...