Word: dismissed
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...unarmed opposition is precariously united behind Prime Minister Etienne Tshisekedi, a human-rights activist and a bitter personal enemy of the President's. Last week each accused the other of treason as Mobutu tried to dismiss Tshisekedi, who adamantly refuses to step down. "The killings in recent weeks have only made Mobutu stronger," cautions a senior Western diplomat, who notes that the dictator's demise has often been forecast before. "He clearly calculates that the physical elimination of a few of his enemies will have a deterrent effect on the rest of the population...
...theory is compelling enough to have spawned its own research center, the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico. And while some scientists dismiss complexity as just a trendy buzz word used to attract grant money, the field has drawn not only young hotshots but also Nobel laureates in physics, including Philip Anderson and Murray Gell-Mann, and Economics laureate Kenneth Arrow...
Even if Farmer gets rich, there will be skeptics who dismiss the idea that complexity is the scientific revolution its proponents claim. The critics, writes physicist and sometime Santa Fe Institute visitor Daniel Stein in the December issue of Physics Today, can rightly ask, "Why is it necessary to force ((these phenomena)) under a single umbrella?" Yet there can be no doubt that investigations of complexity and chaos have at least made things more interesting. Comments Rockefeller University physicist Mitchell Feigenbaum: "Now we see things we didn't notice before, and we ask questions we didn't know...
...CIRCLE THE WAGONS. Journalists are so often assailed by news subjects protesting stories that are fair and true -- but inconvenient -- that they tend to dismiss all complaints. It was ill advised of the story's producers to answer GM without consulting NBC's legal department or journalistic superiors. It was loyal but just as unwise for Gartner to reaffirm the story later without checking. Even the ablest journalist sometimes gets things wrong...
Harvard representatives said they were concerned the project's delay would cause a private foundation to dismiss the Fogg's application for a $250,000 grant supplementing the project's cost...