Word: dismissiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...charged with investigating as head of a committee of "eminent persons" looking into Switzerland's role during World War II. Why are questions about Volcker's Nestle position being raised now? Perhaps because in a recent letter to a federal judge who must decide whether or not to dismiss a multibillion-dollar class action brought by Holocaust victims against the Swiss banks, Volcker argued that their suit would have a potentially "crippling" impact on his investigation. Other members of the eminent-persons group immediately dissociated themselves from Volcker's letter, and made it clear that it was his concern...
This idea hasn't yet been confirmed by other shark researchers, but they don't dismiss it either. They know that sharks are extremely sensitive to electromagnetic signals; a "sixth sense" lets them home in on faint electricity generated by another fish's movement, gill action or even heartbeat. Indeed, Holland's team in Hawaii routinely tricks baby hammerheads at Coconut Island into striking at electrodes dangling in the water. Adult sharks, apparently drawn by the same process, have been known to bite through undersea cables. Holland is planning to investigate what sorts of electric signal might repel rather than...
...April, Yale had filed a motion-to-dismiss on the grounds that graduate teachers were students, not employees. Miller dismissed this motion...
...President's lawyer is no longer out to bury the case, he says, but to win it. Smelling trouble for Jones, Bennett is talking witnesses and affidavits these days, not negotiations or settlements. In his answer to Jones' complaint, he denied her charges and asked the court to dismiss the case. Failing that, he requested a conference to set a trial date. "There's no dragging this out," says Bennett, bouncing in his office chair, his suspenders not up to the task of containing his shirt. "I'm doing everything I can to speed it up. We want discovery...
Bell Atlantic has moved to dismiss the lawsuit--the court has yet to rule--and says it will vigorously contest the case. Its work force is 23% black, and so are four of its 22 top executives. Group president for consumer and small-business services Bruce Gordon, a black executive who has been with the company for 29 years, denies there is any consciously discriminatory policy. But he said, "Bell Atlantic is a microcosm of society, and I have to assume there are race-based incidents at Bell Atlantic." In fact, most companies of any size now have diversity policies...