Word: dismissed
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...admit that I looked a little clueless at times, and I am known for eating chocolate. But before you dismiss me entirely, understand that I met with many newspapers along my path, many of whom thereafter changed their tune to support the passage of campaign finance reform. Also, in the last miles, several thousand people were walking with me into Washington, including several dozen members of Congress, and we had lots of “Good Morning America” and NPR stories to raise the profile of the reform bill as it hit Congress. Gump had none of that...
...they were influential. A year ago, Tom Warrick, a career State Department official, assembled a Future of Iraq project that brought together more than 200 Iraqis in working groups with U.S. officials observing. The I.N.C. joined only one of the working groups. Chalabi's people dismiss the whole exercise as absurd. "We just thought it was a joke," says an I.N.C. official. Says another: "The idea that there was a well-organized project at the State Department that was producing sophisticated postwar planning is ridiculous. The scholarship was at the high school--essay level." Others believe I.N.C. and its allies...
These tales are tempting to dismiss as scripts recited by practiced liars who had been deceiving the world community for years. These sources may still be too frightened of the possibility of Saddam's return to power to tell his secrets. Or it could be that Saddam reconstituted an illicit weapons program with such secrecy that those who knew of past efforts were left out of the loop. But the unanimity of these sources' accounts can't be easily dismissed and at the very least underscores the difficulty the U.S. has in proving its case that Saddam was hoarding unconventional...
...board said the proposed letter to Gross “will stress the need for the administration to make such decisions that directly affect our lives more controlled by us,” and indicated that they felt excluded in the College’s decision to dismiss Cooke...
...sluggish economy, concerns about postwar Iraq and ballooning budget deficits, some are wondering aloud whether one of the candidates in the heated-up Democratic race could defeat Bush in 2004. However, many other presidents experienced similar drops in approval before being elected to second terms, and some political commentators dismiss the low approval rating as irrelevant. What do you think? Is Bush untouchable in 2004, as he seemed to be several months ago, or has the nation's mood changed enough to elect one of the Democrats to the presidency...