Word: dismissed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to the council's bylaws, theexecutive board has the right to dismiss memberswho miss four council meetings. Before last week'smeeting, the executive board warned 18representatives with poor attendance records thatthey would be expelled if they missed either ofthe last two meetings of the year...
...Kohl told friends that his aim in life was to become the ruler of Germany. At Harvard, we have met several people with similar aspirations. While we can dismiss their ambitions as immature and juvenile, it is scary that Kohl actually followed through on his plan and is now bound to become the leader of a unified Germany...
...easy to dismiss protests about pop entertainment as prudishness. Most concerned parents fret not so much about sex as about the combination of sex and violence. In heavy-metal music, there is often little difference between sex and rape. Too much of today's entertainment carries messages that are damaging to young psyches and dangerous to society. Among them: 1) women are sexual objects to be used and abused by men; 2) violence is an effective means of resolving conflicts; 3) it is O.K. to hate another class of people...
...Buthelezi will be conspicuously absent. Unlike the African National Congress leader, he sees no roadblocks to immediate talks. Many whites and conservative blacks, not to mention Western leaders such as George Bush and Margaret Thatcher, admire Buthelezi's readiness to compromise and his embrace of capitalism. Antiapartheid militants, however, dismiss him as a puppet who has long collaborated with the white minority government against the interests of the poor and disenfranchised black majority...
Although many in the A.N.C. seem to accept that Inkatha has a right to sit at the negotiating table, it remains fashionable to dismiss Buthelezi as a political lightweight. After last week's press conference, attended by a mere dozen journalists, Buthelezi groused that the media refuse to take him seriously. There is little doubt that Mandela's words will continue to be those that are most closely scrutinized inside and outside the country. But the architects of any future political settlement will ignore the Zulu prince only at South Africa's peril...