Word: dismissed
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Those are words to live by, if you're talking about this gritty team. It's easy to look at its lack of size or of proven All-Americans and dismiss their chances on the national stage...
...newspaper passionately opposed to the final club system. The Crimson has been quick to dismiss the goals and motivations of the women who have decided to boycott final clubs this year. You have neatly packaged us as a homogeneous group of athletes hoping to gain access to a system of privilege and elitism, and you have glibly called us "hollow feminists...
...would have been easy to dismiss this episode as merely a matter of miscommunication or, perhaps, conflicting personalities. Yet, as I pondered the encounter, I began to realize that this minor event in my chaotic life represented a greater and more distressing phenomenon at Harvard...
...these changes do nothing to address the fundamental problems of nepotism and undue influence raised last year. In fact, the changes will probably make it even easier for Liem and his friends to dismiss tutors who fail to toe the party line. At best, they are poorly conceived; at worst, they are part of a concerted effort to suppress free speech and obscure the malfeasance that characterizes Liem's despotic reign at Dunster...
...there was no rejoicing in Lagos last week when Babangida announced his retirement from the armed forces and installed a new "interim" government that is plainly intended to serve as his puppet. The transitional government promised to hold another presidential election by the end of next year, but Nigerians dismiss the new businessman-President Ernest Shonekan, one of Babangida's closest cronies, as a front behind whom Babangida will continue to exercise real control...