Word: dismissed
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Other city employees are appointed and fired bythe city manager. But the council can exertinfluence over whom the city manager chooses tohire and dismiss...
...Wolf does not entirely dismiss thepossibility of a change in the city's charter. Shesays the strong mayor-strong city managerdiscussion crops up every few years and that nowmay be an opportune time for the debate to beresumed...
...People tend to be real scoffing and cynical about the idea of spirituality here," says Mary T. Teichert '93, president of the Catholic Students Association. "They tend to dismiss spirituality as being a substitute for real thinking...
...problem with this panegyric is all the lumpy and inconvenient facts, such as the crumbling U.S. infrastructure and the declining competitiveness of American corporations, that Bartley tries to dismiss. Did the budget deficit swell menacingly in the '80s, for example? No problem! Japan and Germany had lots of red ink too, and "advanced" economists doubt that deficits even matter. Did the plight of the poor worsen? Not really, Bartley argues. The data for low-income households overstate the extent of poverty by counting many retired people -- who often own their own homes and have plenty of capital -- along with college...
...PERFECT COINCIDENCE OF NEED AND ability: the Palestinians and Hanan Mikhail-Ashrawi. That's why it is her face you see, her voice you hear speaking for her people, brilliantly recasting their cause as a cry for human justice. No longer can the world sum up -- and dismiss -- the Palestinians in the portrait of a stubble-bearded man wrapped in a kaffiyeh. This woman looks civilized, unthreatening, someone you'd like to invite to dinner, and she speaks with a compelling eloquence. With exquisite timing or luck or preternatural planning, she was there, this medieval-literature scholar, devoted mother, Christian...