Word: dismissed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tower Commission merely confirmed and documented what all of us knew and too many preferred to dismiss for some time: that Mr. Reagan is a mental absentee; more than detached, he is disconnected from reality and the Administration he inhabits...
Some German and American commentators have gone so far as to dismiss the upsurge of Teutonic racism, citing the restraining effect of 40 years of national guilt. They should not. Germans have suffered for their fathers, and there is no reason to believe that Germany will again accept violent dictatorship; yet in trying to preserve its pride, Germany is retreating from the tradition of tolerance that it has tried to establish during the last 40 years...
...workplace. For example, Chicago's Northern Trust Bank last month announced a ban on all smoking by its 4,500 employees except in lounges. It offered stop-smoking clinics to the 25% of its employees who indulge. USG Corp., also based in Chicago, has said that it would dismiss any employee of its acoustical-plants who smoked on the job or even at home, a move that critics contend treads on shaky legal ground. According to a poll of its members taken last fall by the Administrative Management Society, 42% of the firms now have some kind of smoking policy...
...dust clouds of rebellion kicked up by Juan Peron's followers. The mood is languorous, but the snake of sensuality curls under the loose garments of the ruling class. When Miss Mary, out of pity and passion, takes the girls' handsome older brother to bed, the family must dismiss her, as Argentina under Peron will soon purge itself of the British influence...
...others dismiss the elite image. "People arefinding out that, yes, it's beautiful, but it isalso affordable. There are things here foreveryone," says Hochman, of Crabtree and Evelyn...