Word: dismissed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dismiss our differences as superficial or unimportant, we are in danger of abdicating our responsibility to seek a fair world for humans of both sexes...
...decision. A foreign business man complains: "I've wanted to buy things that Tanzania supposedly wants to sell. But the deals have fallen through because no one cared enough or was able to quote me a price." Managers are frustrated by laws making it impossible for them to dismiss or even discipline incompetent workers...
...Administration may have sound reason to dismiss these bold but admittedly untested ideas, but so far it has produced no convincing alternatives. The anti-inflation plan of Carter and Co., based mostly on friendly persuasion, is so weak and ineffectual that even White House insiders mock it as "wishboning." That is a category of soft talk inferior even to the old "jawboning," which other Presidents used?with distinctly mixed results ?in the crusade to hold down wage and price rises...
...soldiers are contemptuous of the guerrillas, whom they dismiss (in the words of one sergeant) as "nothing but a bunch of bloody garden boys with weapons." Top officers are confident that the army cannot lose, militarily, and that it will have to be disbanded before it is beaten...
...does Begin hold President Carter in high esteem. Publicly, he has exuded friendship and gratitude toward Washington. But in the company of colleagues, he has often been scathing about Carter. At least one Israeli has listened to Begin dismiss Carter as a naive, none-too-bright Jimmy-come-lately who can easily be manipulated. Reports of such talk have found their way back to the Administration. When asked to comment, Administration aides tend to smile thinly and change the subject. After all, they philosophize, if Begin can take the long historical view, so can they. Only in the other direction...