Word: dismissiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While Harvard and other universities across the country tend to dismiss rankings such as those published in US News and World Report, which are partially based on opinion, universities take Science Watch's study seriously...
...would be easy to dismiss this and similar stories popping up across the U.S. as overreactions by overwrought parents. Or to trash the recent federal policy requiring airlines to provide peanut-free zones to customers who request them. After all, most peanut allergies are more annoying than life threatening. You just learn what foods you can eat, never swap lunch bags and avoid certain restaurants...
...presidency remains all-powerful. So Yeltsin can retain the initiative simply by doing nothing." But the political deal that will underwrite a new government -- whoever is at its head -- is likely to strip the presidency of many of its executive powers, including the right to appoint and dismiss the government. So the current silence could be Yeltsin's autocratic swan song. And constitutionally, it can last only until Monday...
...even if Yeltsin can hang on, he is a profoundly diminished political figure. His aides last week started negotiating with the Duma over a "political agreement" that would alter the Constitution by taking away the President's power to issue decrees on the economy, limiting his ability to dismiss and appoint governments and transferring many of those prerogatives to the parliament and the Cabinet. In other words, these were the terms for Yeltsin's surrender. In return, the parliament would halt impeachment proceedings and pass a law giving the President "social guarantees" when he retires...
...Mahathir?s plan is easy to dismiss as the folly of an economically inept autocrat. But by going through with it, Mahathir has drawn a line in the sand: It?s him against the barbarians. And in this age where economic and political ideology have become inextricably entwined, the stakes are high. Mahathir evidently dreams of an Asia resurgent on its own terms, reborn in its own image, not that of the West. If his course succeeds, and Malaysia recovers, the rest of the region could follow his example and pull disastrously back from necessary economic reforms. At worst...