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That kind of "reporting" often prompts print reporters to dismiss their broadcast colleagues as "talking hairdos." Admits Woodruff, who zoomed up in eight years from cleaning film and clipping articles at an Atlanta TV station to covering the President: "From my first reporting job on, I found people were not inclined to take me seriously because I was a woman and because I had never worked for a newspaper." A senior White House aide describes Woodruff as "always a lady," not necessarily regarding that as an asset: "She seems uncomfortable trying to dig out a story, almost timid...
...course, a solitary album constitutes little on which to build a legend. Quite possibly, Crenshaw will be just another of rock's firecrackers, sparkling brilliantly for a few seconds and then disappearing forever. But his album bears too much promise, indeed too much immediate confirmation, to dismiss Crenshaw as a flash...
...suit was originally filed in August 1978. But because of numerous preliminary motions, including one to dismiss the case, the trial did not begin until...
...become convinced that some sort of historic change was taking place in U.S. policy toward the region. Like many other people, he suspected that the ferocity of the Israeli strikes in Lebanon was causing the U.S. to see Israel in an unaccustomed light, and he did not want to dismiss the U.S. initiative out of hand. Arafat asked the Arabs for "moral and material support" for the Palestinians remaining in Lebanon, the West Bank and elsewhere, and requested that they replace the military equipment that the P.L.O. had lost in Lebanon. The Saudis reportedly promised to open their checkbooks...
Warsaw's bosses at first tried to dismiss the demonstrations as minor disturbances by bands of "rampant" youths. But the government's own figures told a different story. Officials announced that 4,050 Poles had been detained, and that up to 75,000 in 54 communities had taken part in demonstrations. In addition to the four acknowledged deaths, 148 policemen and 63 demonstrators were reported injured. Although the government insisted that the demonstrations enjoyed no wide popular support, the world had been given vivid proof of the Polish people's determination to win back the freedoms that...