Word: dismissed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...easy to dismiss lacocca as just another supersalesman because he is so good at it. He exudes confidence and conviction: well-tailored clothes, big cigar, self-satisfied smile. But lacocca has proved he is a remarkable manager as well. He has a knack for getting the most out of people, for making them do more than they think they can. Says St. Louis Plant Manager John Burkart: "All of us at Chrysler believe in the man. I worship the guy." Vince Williams, a Portland, Ore., auto salesman, says he decided to open a Dodge dealership rather than a Pontiac outlet...
...could almost dismiss this passage as a sarcastic denunciation of the "Harvard Mystique." But the same adulation resurfaces again and again, even in the most peripheral descriptions of Cambridge weather or shops. Eager to recreate faithfully each joyous image of Harvard life, Levine crowds her sentences with painstaking and pained observations noting each character's clothing or the color of trays in the dining room. Thus the reader learns that Sarah and her boyfriend first make love "in Cambridge, in Mather Hall (sic), in the bottom bunk of a double-decker, his tie on the doorknob to warn away roommates...
...problem, of course, is that people everywhere start heaving similar signs of relief ("Thank goodness that's all over with now") and looking with great irritation at those of us not ready to ignore or dismiss the various events that argue for a slightly more realistic view. Indeed, those unwilling to follow the standard enthusiastic line on equal rights in America-i.e., those baffled by the notion that the current status of minorities could be widely considered anything but a travesty-such people are labelled cynics, malcontents, subversive...
Northerners inclined to dismiss the case as the atavistic behavior of a small Southern town should keep in mind the murder of 30-year-old William Atkinson in Boston last spring. Atkinson, a maintenance worker, was with a friend when the two were attacked by a gang of bottle-throwing white men, who chased Atkinson into the Savin Hill T station. As he fled down the tracks in terror, Atkinson was struck and killed by an oncoming train...
Following an emergency meeting of the SUNY board of trustees, Wharton said that rather than dismiss faculty and reduce university staff "equal reductions could be achieved by closing both the University centers at Albany and Binghamton, or by shutting down SUNY's largest single campus, the University Center at Buffalo...