Word: dismissing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Corporation had found Kamin guilty of "misconduct" in his refusal to testify to the committee, but had refused to dismiss him on the grounds that only "grave misconduct" warranted dismissal...
...lack of monopolistic restraint, as traditional theorists assumed there would have to be. The moral, said MacLaurin, is that trustbusters should take into account the creative contribution to the economy of a company's research (i.e., the argument Du Pont used to persuade a federal court to dismiss an antitrust suit against it on Cellophane [TIME, Dec. 21]) as an offsetting factor in the definition of monopoly...
...neutralism; Ramon Magsaysay, the young and dynamic, U.S.-loving man of action who became President of the Philippines; wrinkled old Syngman Rhee of Korea, the angry ally of the West. Syngman Rhee's intractability towards his allies, and his ruthless quelling of domestic rivals, led many to dismiss his great claim to distinction: without his half-century fight for liberty and his stouthearted hatred of Communism, there would have been no South Korea to save...
...test case, Washington's U.S. District Judge Richmond Keech, a Democrat, ruled that the Department of Justice had a right to dismiss Attorney Leo A. Roth from his $10,800-a-year job. Roth, who was fired last June, insisted that he had unassailable civil-service status. Judge Keech held that the President has unlimited power to decide which jobs "shall be excluded or excepted from the classified civil service...
...President could dismiss White, and make no statement...