Word: dismissingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...acting campaign manager for Walter Mondale, Glenn's chief rival, is uncharacteristically catty: "The movie is going to make Glenn look old." That sort of belittling comment is a hint that Mondale aides are at least a little worried about the film's influence. Glenn staffers either dismiss the movie as a factor or play it up gingerly. "It plays no part in our strategy," says Bill White, head of Glenn's campaign. "On balance, though, it's more of a plus." One Democratic Party strategist sees the expected endorsement of Mondale...
...inadequate historical sensibility truly the last word where the, right to life movement is concerned? Certainly it is not the first political effort to draw on corporation dollars and frequently distasteful, political techniques. Yet it remains difficult to dismiss the anti-abortion campaign as merely another special interest drive...
...claim that the KAL plane was on a spy mission and flew in tandem with the RC-135 for ten minutes so that the blips of the two planes merged on Soviet radar screens. When they separated, he implied, the Soviets could not tell which was which. U.S. officials dismiss this scenario as ludicrous. The two planes, they say, passed each other 86 miles apart headed in opposite directions. At first, the Soviets reportedly referred to the Korean jet as an RC-135. Relays of fighters-ten in all, according to Ogar-were sent aloft to intercept the wayward plane...
...should have the grace to conceal it, or at least to sound a little guilty about it; Buckley luxuriates in his amenities a bit too much, and one hears in his prose the happy sigh of a man sinking into a hot bath. So his enemies try to dismiss him as Marie Antoinette in a pimpmobile. They portray him as, among other things, a terrible, terminal snob...
...national groups only indirectly. In Massachusetts a group called MassDIVEST a coalition of local groups. Spearheaded a recent successful lobbying effort to secure legislation in the Massachusetts House. The House voted to completely divest all state pension funds from companies operating in South Africa Officials of the organization dismiss the importance of national groups in the success, say one it was primarily a local effort...