Word: dismissingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...enforcement officer about the terrorists: "They want to make a sensation. If they can't get the President, they are apparently under instructions to kill anyone close to him." Said Reagan, talking about the threats from Libya: "I think in view of the record, you can't dismiss them out of hand." Nevertheless, the President added, "they're not going to change my life much...
...around Babs people are crushed by cliches. Her husband, an adman, is worn down by the slogans of his profession, so cut off from reality that he longs to dismiss the product entirely: "A structuralist's dream--advertising for its own sake!" There is a psychological as well as social basis for Bab's paranoia: her mother, whom she locks in the closet and taunts with lines like. "I'm fucking the dog, Mom" comes out and announces. "Children were given to us by you-know-who so that we could make order out of our own lives...
...dollars spent on nuclear weapons and programs of foreign military intervention? Since the victory of the referendum is non-binding, the Boston City Council can choose not to make any such suggestion to Congress. Likewise, even if the Council does send a formal letter to Washington, Congress may well dismiss or ignore the request. Election night coverage on television made no mention of the referendum; neither did the late stocks edition of The Boston Globe the following day. But despite the obscurity of the referendum, the question intimately affects the lives of everyone in Boston...
Glenn S. Koocher '71 says there are only two main issues in this year's school board election for the Cambridge School Committee. The first centers around what Koocher calls "the fundamental differences" between Independent candidates and Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) candidates on the issue of how to dismiss teachers...
Roxanne C. Leary considers the Cambridge School Committee's dispute with the Cambridge Teacher Association to be contractual matter: the school committee should honor the contract and dismiss teachers according to seniority alone...