Word: dismissed
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Summers, who is also Ropes Professor of Political Economy at Harvard, told the crowd of more than 400 who had gathered in the Science Center that he wanted to dismiss the "apocalyptic rhetoric" and doomsday predictions frequently heard among economists...
Council leaders reject LaRock's claims, andsome dismiss them as the sour grapes of a failedcandidate...
Clinton's defenders dismiss the allegations that he is cavalier about the working conditions. "Bill is not insensitive to the hard, tough nature of those jobs," argues his spokeswoman, Betsey Wright. "I recall at least one brutal public piece of warfare where Bill made a comment about these near- minimum-wage jobs, and the entire poultry industry came down on our heads very hard...
...Washington Hospital Center in July, doctors quietly determined that his heart was too weak to withstand an operation. "He has practically no heart muscle left," says a medical source. Clifford was later hospitalized briefly for internal bleeding. His lawyers now plan to ask a New York judge to dismiss the charges against him on the ground that the rigors of a trial could cause a fatal heart attack...
...court will consider the city's motion to dismiss the case today...