Word: dismissingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reporters often rely on publicists to alert them to stories, but customarily dismiss the public relations trade as "flackery." They especially bridle at the notion that p.r. agencies offer clients "influence" or "access" to news organizations; journalists consider themselves open to anyone with a story or a complaint...
...made was a proper one. Over the past two seasons, Kleinfelder has compiled a meager 12-39 record and her most recent campaign saw the squad's mark plummet to a dismal 4-21. (But, keep in mind, at Harvard it takes more than just a losing record to dismiss a coach...
...Everything was hush, hush," said one member of the basketball team asked not to be identified. Every player contacted yesterday lauded the decision to dismiss Kleinfelder as a good and necessary...
...life styles" journalist central to Bodily Harm--are smooth and sophisticated, gliding productively through life. It is this apparent power, most likely, that prompts so many feminists to claim her work as the ideological property of the women's movement, a tendency which leads naturally to the temptation to dismiss her male supporting characters as evil insensitive foils for the struggling females. The temptation is false, through: Atwood's men, though by no means models of balance, meet her "real people" criterion of complexity, and her feminism is of a healthy, direct sort...
...Dutchmen were killed on the same day that a "hit list" surfaced naming 35 people, mostly journalists, as targets of right-wing death squads. Most correspondents felt the list was probably a hoax and tried to dismiss it with sarcastic remarks. Some of the people named had long since left the country-although at least...