Word: dismissiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...parody is acute, effective and intellectually substantial, despite its debut on a page other than this one. Through wholesale condemnation of Unofficial Political Satire, the staff nicely circumscribes the forged wanted poster's intended message: unjustified racism within the Harvard University Police Department. Rather than dismiss such powerful speech, we should acknowledge a trend so seldom detailed on the leaves of Official Student Thought...
...cyclical curve. I predict a very big decline over the next 12 months." And some professionals think such stocks are not worth the anxiety. "The stocks are absolutely fascinating to watch," says Eugene Peroni Jr., a market analyst with Janney Montgomery Scott, "but you just have to dismiss them and perhaps go into some less dramatic movers that will offer fewer sleepless nights...
...Saudi European nearly collapsed, and in order to avert a financial crisis, French authorities arranged for an investment group to take it over. According to the lawsuit, fraudulent borrowing and other misconduct by the defendants had crippled the bank. Investcorp and several other defendants have filed motions to dismiss the complaint. A number of them are also plaintiffs in continuing litigation against Radwan in which they accuse him of swindling them out of several million dollars. (In fact, Radwan conceived his own lawsuit as a "counterattack.") He denies the allegations...
...merits of the complaint, it highlights the intriguing background of a key Investcorp insider: Abdullah Taha Bakhsh, a Saudi tycoon who has served on Investcorp's board since the bank was founded and who helped persuade other rich Saudis to invest. (Like Investcorp, Bakhsh filed a motion to dismiss the Saudi European action, and his lawyer expects it to be granted.) The complaint points out that Bakhsh was a major shareholder of Paris-based Al Saudi Banque, which collapsed in 1988, and accuses him of looting that institution. One of Bakhsh's other holdings is the First Commercial Financial Group...
...other borderline film, "I Am Curious (Yellow)" faced numerous hurdles in reaching the United States because of its frank portrayal of a female social activist's other activities. A film within a film structure sometimes gives the film a confused, patchwork quality and probably made it easier to dismiss as having no real merit. Undeniably, the film features sex, in various positions and locales, but not with the lascivious intent that the U.S. Court of Appeals, which labeled the film "obscene," would have us believe A certain openness marks the film, such that we see sex as just another part...