Word: dismissed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Spence said the reasons for Collins's decisionnot to return are "largely personal, although Idon't mean to dismiss the difficulties he had lastyear...
...from his supporters, including Prime Minister Laurent Fabius. Neither leader would comment on the subject of the discussions, but sources now indicate that the two talked about an air link for Soviet Jews to Israel via Poland. Such discussions are, however, denied by Jaruzelski's aides, and Israeli officials dismiss a broker role for Poland. Indeed, Budapest and Bucharest have been mentioned in the Moscow discussions as possible transit points, according to one source. Yet two weeks ago Bronfman visited Warsaw and, say W.J.C. sources, discussed with Jaruzelski the emigration of Soviet Jews...
...black miners staged their first legal strike and won wage and benefit increases from South Africa's mining companies, which have generally been receptive to reforms. In September, however, the miners' union was forced to suspend a strike after only three days when less conciliatory mine operators threatened to dismiss the strikers and evict them from company-owned housing...
...body count is important, we can't dismiss that," he said. "But as a federal agency, we're not as susceptible to this form of measurement. We don't encourage our agents to increase the number of arrests each year just to increase the body count...
...jump in voluntarism, then, is difficult to explain. What some students and administrators dismiss as efforts by students to stuff their resumes, others prefer to greet as a rebirth of on-campus altruism. One intermediate explanation, advanced by Epps, is that students have begun to realize that they can devote a few hours a week to service without feeling obliged to spend most of their lives on public work. "Harvard students have strived for and achieved a balance so that it's not all or nothing. They have found that they can pursue their studies and at the same time...