Word: dismissed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...incredible for some people's taste, however. Once a database like this is assembled, civil rights advocates argue, it is unlikely to be disassembled, and it is only a matter of time before data grow to include not just wrongdoers but also law-abiding citizens. Proponents of DNA testing dismiss this as libertarian alarmism, but experience suggests otherwise...
...staff is rash to ask the Senate to dismiss the impeachment charges and avoid a full trial. The president lied under oath and it is the Senate's responsibility to hear the facts and decide whether that lying constitutes a "high crime." Additionally, only in a full trial might the case for the President's obstruction of justice come to light...
...Conn.) to allow a preliminary vote on the merit of the charges against the president before the commencement of trial proceedings does not appear likely to succeed. Yet we hope the Senate will vote to end the trial soon after it has begun, whether by a motion to dismiss the charges or, if necessary, a compromise censure resolution...
...does to your marriage, not what it does to your oath taking. To take such an important aspect of yourself and give it to someone else is to live the biggest lie imaginable, whether or not it's repeated in court. Lately there's been a terrible tendency to dismiss adultery lightly if no official lying is involved. Henry Hyde describes a long affair with a married mother of three as a youthful indiscretion (he was 41); Dan Burton says his affair with a state employee and the secret child it produced is O.K. because he pays child support; Helen...
...easy to imagine her having a far better ex-presidency than her husband will. Those who know her dismiss the notion that she might run for the Senate, from Illinois or New York. If anything, it would seem a comedown and would tie her to a capital she has come to hate. A more likely possibility, they say, is that she might head a child-advocacy organization, or run a think tank, maybe connected with his presidential library, or continue the overseas work she has come to love so much, perhaps as U.N. ambassador or head of a major international...