Word: dismissed
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...innings?" Bush asked, amazed at the lack of preparation. Various aides ran through the possible solutions with their boss, weighing whether the teams should have used pitchers who had already cooled down or put players on the mound who don't normally pitch. While the president did dismiss a suggestion that the final victor be determined by home run derby of each team's biggest hitters, he offered no suggestion for how the "pathetic" resolution, as he called it, might have been avoided...
...British media group Reuters, will buy rival electronic-trading firm Island for $508 million in stock. The deal combines NASDAQ's two biggest rivals. French Attack Shares in MobilCom fell 46% to ?7.25 when France Telecom said it was severing relations with the German phone operator for refusing to dismiss CEO Gerhard Schmid. INDICATORS A Toast With The Most Scotland may not have made it to the World Cup, but they are there in spirit. Gains in South Korea and Japan helped Scotch whisky become the world's most widely exported liquor, breaking the billion-bottle mark as the market...
...much-talked-about “Rally for Justice,” about 350 students protest outside University Hall as the Faculty votes to dismiss D. Drew Douglas, Class of 2000, who pled guilty in the fall to charges of indecent assault and battery. The protest, organized by the Coalition Against Sexual Violence, the Living Wage Campaign and Students Against Sweatshops, also called for a stronger University stance against sweatshop labor, alleging that some apparel manufactured with the Harvard name was produced by companies using sweatshops, in addition to advocating for a minimum living wage for Harvard employees...
...there will be enough evidence beyond the written testimony to proceed. If not, the victim can pursue the case through the police department—with its different investigative powers, such as the collection of scientific evidence. If the accused is convicted, the Ad Board will then likely dismiss the student...
...biggest myth out there," Milstein says, "is that every one of these studies is essential to the advancement of medicine. That's just nonsense. Most have to do with the advancement of the researcher himself." If it were just a lawyer talking, that sentiment might be easy to dismiss. But Marcia Angell expresses a similar criticism: "We have floods of me-too drugs," she complains. "So much research is trivial duplication...