Word: dismissed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Massachusetts, Dukakis has become an object of political scorn. The Governor who boasted repeatedly during the 1988 presidential campaign of balancing ten budgets in a row is drowning in red ink. His credibility is shot. Legislators he once controlled dismiss him as irrelevant. Rarely has a lustrous reputation sunk so far so fast...
...Bush and other Republicans who have espoused right-to-life views are trying to accomplish. While the abortion funding debate worked to their favor, they gave it a prominent slot on the GOP docket. But as soon as they felt a shift in the political weather, they tried to dismiss the issue. "It's no longer important if it puts wind in their sails, not ours," they said, but the voters, especially those in Virginia, didn...
Bond asked the court to dismiss the lawsuit and said he should not be forced to pay child support or Moore's expenses in delivering the baby...
...That type of thing we dismiss with contempt. The armed struggle continues. Until the government negotiates a new situation, including the end of violence, there is no way of stopping...
...sponsors had hoped to reach agreement before the Vietnamese pullout. Now, with the occupiers gone and no political settlement in sight, the country is girding for further bloodshed. Most chilling is the possibility of the return of the Khmer Rouge, a force of some 25,000 guerrillas who now dismiss as "mistakes" the genocidal practices that provoked the Vietnamese to chase them from power...