Word: dismissing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...paragraph letter stating: "I hereby determine [withdraw] your appointment as head of government [and] the appointments of all the ministers in your cabinet." The Governor General then received Fraser, who had been waiting -unknown to Whitlam-in an anteroom. After agreeing that he would not institute new policies or dismiss government officials, Fraser was directed by Kerr to form a caretaker Cabinet that will govern until the elections...
Although some critics, including a number of top military men, dismiss him as "a good paper shuffler" and as Kissinger's errand boy within the White House, Scowcroft is hardly an automaton. He is an intellectual soldier with a superb background in international relations. A West Point graduate, Scowcroft won a master's degree and a Ph.D. in his specialty at Columbia University, also studied at Lafayette, Georgetown's School of Languages and Linguistics, the Armed Forces Staff College and the National War College. Fluent in Russian and Serbian, Scowcroft taught Russian history at West Point during...
...that reason, Gillerman said, "I withdrew the plaintiff's opposition to the government's motion to dismiss for mootness that had been filed last February...
...preferred to deal with it after next September's elections. However, it fits in well with the traditions of the socialist labor movement in Sweden. And, given the party's commitment to redistribution of income and socialization of productive wealth, it will probably be impossible (for it) wholly to dismiss the proposal. In the end, there will probably be some form of collective profit-sharing even if not of the type envisioned by Meidner...
White Listeners. One should not dismiss too lightly any of the director's musings on success. It is one subject that he knows all about. Students of the Motown sound have long contended that it was Gordy's basic gimmick-the smoothing and packaging of rhythm and blues-that drew white listeners to his label. Essentially, he applied the same formula to his profitable production of Lady Sings the Blues, turning the hard life and times of Singer Billie Holiday into a muzzy backstage love story. It is also what happens in Mahogany. "I wanted to bring...