Word: dismissed
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There has always been an understandable tendency among African Americans to dismiss bad news about Africa as racist lies. During the late '70s, for example, a certain civil rights leader tried to persuade black American professionals to lend support to Ugandan dictator Idi Amin. Reports that Amin had slaughtered tens of thousands of his people were brushed aside as inventions of the racist Western propaganda machine. The truth, of course, is that until Amin was chased into exile by Julius Nyerere's Tanzania, he was one of the most murderous tyrants the world has known. His country, once...
...other words, it is not enough to dismiss the family-values issue as a political ploy in a tough Republican year...
Being a woman in what are still male-dominated G.O.P. political circles, Matalin has suffered far more for the relationship than Carville has. Last year several top Republicans pressed Bush to dismiss her lest pillow talk undo his re-election. But the President stuck by Matalin and gave her a big hug after last week's tempest passed...
Long before the demise of the Soviet Union, Russians learned to dismiss as absurd the civil defense training courses imposed on them at school and work. They refer to the courses as grob, taken from the first two letters of the words for civil defense -- grazhdanskaya oborona. Translation of grob: coffin. The cynicism was justified. In 1988 an accidental air-raid alert in the industrial city of Perm sent hundreds of thousands of people scrambling for safety. As a test of civil defense, the accident proved a disaster. Perm residents found many shelters locked, flooded or infested with mosquitoes...
...Time/CNN polls have indicated that one-third of Americans would vote against antiabortion politicians "regardless of the candidate's position on other issues." But less than a quarter of the - electorate would vote against a proabortion-rights candidate solely because of that stance. Some of Bush's advisers dismiss these figures as misleading. His pollster, Fred Steeper, argues that nearly all voters who will cast their ballots only on the abortion issue made up their minds long ago. In this group, the liberals' edge amounts "only to a percentage point or two," Steeper says. But in a three-way race...