Word: dismissing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...legionnaires dismiss reports...
...called for the huge sums spent on weapons development to be channeled into alleviating poverty and exploring new sources of energy. To expect any such sweeping progress toward the centuries-old goal of disarmament was obviously unrealistic, and one West German Foreign Ministry official went so far as to dismiss the conference as "a propaganda exercise for all concerned." Perhaps so, but other speakers broached more modest ideas that could at least provide some safety markings on the global minefield, if not defuse...
...distressed that my classmate R. Jerrold Gibson '51, director of the Office of Fiscal Services, should so casually dismiss the proposal of Boston University's President John R. Silber for a tuition advance fund. Harvard's endowment, twice its nearest competitor, may yield immunity from the problems of financing higher education but the rest of the nation is not so blessed. Mr. Gibson's contempt for this plan, however, was not shared by his Harvard colleagues in 1968. As one of Dean Ebert's associate deans at Harvard Medical School in that era, I helped the dean promote the national...
...their suit, they charged that Harvard has continued to build the diesel electric-generating portion of the plant in violation of the January decision of a state environmental agency. Although Donahue refused the injunction request, he did not dismiss the groups' case, which will be heard in Superior Court at a later date...
Lawyers for the University as well as the attorney general of the Commonwealth will present motions to dismiss a second lawsuit in State Superior Court today--a charge brought by the selectmen of Brookline that Harvard should have been required to obtain a "certificate of need" before beginning to build the power plant, L. Edward Lashman, director of external projects, said yesterday...