Word: dismissed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...abandoning earlier stances on South Africa, ridicule the size of his fund, and question his morality. Students interested in South Africa claim victory for the divestment movement, mark Bok's move as a concession and a failure by the Harvard Corporation to justify its stand against divestment and dismiss the value of any such fund...
Others have and will continue to credit Harvard's stance on South Africa to political motivations. If such accusations are used to discredit all movements, then activism is dead. The activists' belief that they are at the top of the moral heirarchy encourages them to dismiss any other solutions to the South African problem as purely political and meaningless. This assumption of moral rectitude constructs an artificial barrier between different ways of dealing with South Africa. And it is this assumption which paralyzes the Harvard community and impedes any effort to cooperate and make a real, long-term contribution...
...requested a new trial in U.S. District Court in Akron, contending that their client's defense was hampered when federal prosecutors withheld important evidence about Presser's role as an FBI informant on Teamsters-related crimes. In a surprising announcement last week, the Justice Department said it would rather dismiss all charges against Friedman than release sensitive documents on Presser's FBI ties. If Judge Sam Bell orders a new trial for Friedman this week, the convicted felon will be allowed to go free...
...protect themselves from inflation, by suspending the wage-indexing system that ties earnings to the cost of living and severely restricting further deposits in bank accounts linked to the value of the U.S. dollar. The Cabinet also agreed to trim $750 million from Israel's budget and to dismiss 9,000 government employees within 90 days...
...artist whose work generates admiration rather than fondness. The usual evolution of major artists in old age, whereby they become cozily grand paternal figures, patting their juniors on the back and reminiscing in autumnal mellowness about their dead coevals, has not happened to Bacon, who is apt to dismiss nearly everything painted in the 20th century with bleak contempt. He has gone on record as admiring Giacometti and Picasso; for a few others, a few words of respect; beyond that, the sense of isolation is ferocious. The motto of an aristocratic French family declared: "Roi ne puis, prince ne daigne...