Word: dismissed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...serious practitioners of the art of insult, the British probably dismiss Haig's testy comment on Carrington as hardly in the same world class as the invective of Lloyd George, who said that Winston Churchill would "make a drum out of the skin of his own mother in order to sound his own praises"; of World War Fs Field Marshal Haig that he "was brilliant to the top of his army boots"; of Lord Derby that he was "like a cushion who always bore the impress of the last man who sat on him." Devastating ad libs and insults...
...proposals are "something of a red herring," Dallas Marin president of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators told the lobbyists. He counseled that students counter any suggestion of resorting the GSLs in "exchange" for the Pell grants by "telling them, 'We absolutely dismiss this; now let's look at the rest of your bad proposals...
Palestinian leaders in Beirut dismiss any notion that they would try to replace King Hussein, however much he has incurred their enmity. The P.L.O., however, does take the threat of an Israeli invasion seriously, and it has reinforced its strongholds in southern Lebanon. The Lebanese government, meanwhile, is also deeply worried over the threat of a new conflagration on its soil. Lebanon last week sought an urgent meeting of the U.N. Security Council to ask for 1,000 more troops for UNIFIL, the 6,000-member U.N. force stationed in southern Lebanon to help prevent another Middle East...
...Tigers have the same deliberate style Coach Peter Carnl demands of all his squads, but they lack their usual precision--hesitating on open shots and flubbing easy fast breaks Not surprisingly, Penn has already beaten them twice, and the basketball fanatics of scenic mid-New Jersey dismiss the season as a failure...
...prosecution suggests that Sunny was planning to divorce Von Bülow over his infidelity and that he was anxious not to lose her money. Defense lawyers dismiss this as a possible motive, though they concede that the marriage had foundered and that Von Bülow had had an affair, reportedly with New York City Socialite Alexandra Isles, a sometime actress who appeared in the television gothic soap opera Dark Shadows. They contend that Sunny was a pathologically shy woman, who assuaged her demons with alcohol, drugs and compulsive eating, and either deliberately or accidentally caused the coma through...