Word: dismissed
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Mack argues that his skeptical coleagues are simply too limited in their thinking. To dismiss an idea because it does not fit in the common notions of reality is unscientific, he says...
...argument that while students vacate Cambridge after four years, locals must bear the evils of fast food forever? The truth is that students will be here for years to come as well. Each outgoing crop makes room for a new crowd with a new appetite. Moreover, we can't dismiss student demands so easily. Without students, the Square would...
Asked if he would have Clinton repeat his denial under oath, Bennett stopped short. "That's a very premature question," he said. The Administration is hoping the case will be dismissed before it comes to that. Bennett will argue that the charges were filed too late for the federal statute Clinton is accused of violating. Moreover, Bennett suggested last week that he will move to dismiss the case on grounds that a sitting President cannot be sued on matters that occurred before he took office. Unless the courts buy that argument swiftly, however, Bennett's client...
...nearing his 80th birthday, Bellow remains America's most distinguished living writer, thickly bronzed by literary honors that include a Nobel Prize. But public monuments attract pigeons, in Bellow's case the flock of critics and political correctionists who dismiss his traditional humanism, learning and individuality as elitist or worse. Liberals and leftists have long attacked him as an insensitive conservative. Feminist discontent about the women in his fiction has been duly registered. More recently, Brent Staples, an editorial writer for the New York Times, objected in a memoir to the portrayal of a black man in Mr. Sammler...
Some of South Africa's whites fear that their black fellow citizens will visit on them the same codified cruelty they inflicted on the blacks. "Those who have followed our policy generally," Mandela insisted, "will dismiss those rumors without hesitation." No doubt some of the 30 million blacks would savor a taste of revenge, but for now they are a small minority...