Word: dismissiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...planes to Malta, resulting in 60 deaths, and just three weeks ago, a hijacker forced another plane to fly to Germany. To enhance security, two armed guards usually fly aboard EgyptAir flights. There were no such guards on Flight 990. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak hastened to dismiss sabotage, but the Egyptian government's war against Islamic militants cannot be discounted...
...Public confidence in the news media, as evidenced by the multi-million-dollar jury verdict, is lower than any newspaper or television network would like to admit. Tactics that skirt or violate the law will buy no friends among a public already quick to identify bias in reporters and dismiss their reports. The press occupies too important a position in the democratic process to be complacent towards this ambient distrust; perceptions of a biased, unethical or irresponsible press will only encourage the public not to listen when the media reports something they don't want to hear...
...Anthropic Principle states that 'if the universe weren't suitable for life, we would not ask why in the first place." Although many physicists dismiss the Anthropic Principle as groundless, Hawking defended it as necessary to understand that models of the universe are shaped by our human limitations...
...faced the fact that my original assessment was slightly naive. Going to Harvard doesn't make you better than anyone else, and it certainly doesn't make you part of a superior group of beings. Yet it would be foolish to dismiss the influence many of the people you meet here can have in your life. Not everyone can grow up with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. Not everyone here will become the Matt Damon of marketing, or the Ben Affleck of corporate lawyers. But many of us here will fulfill the golden future that admissions saw would arrive...
...fantastic deception? Because what could be more compelling than a child's eyewitness to the ovens. As fiction, noted Judith Shulevitz in Slate, the book is banal and formulaic. As fact, it becomes harder to dismiss...