Word: dismissiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lawyers at Justice have been co-opted to find legal rationalizations for policies adopted by the White House," declares Elliot Richardson, the Attorney General fired by Nixon in the Saturday Night Massacre for refusing to dismiss the Watergate special prosecutor. "The department should not be the law office for the Administration in power, but the embodiment of the fair and honorable administration of justice...
Those who dismiss this argument as simply homophobic are not taking into account either the lack of privacy on a submarine, surface ship or combat unit or the extended periods of time in which the same people must live and work together...
...these are big ifs. This would require a dramatic shift in the orientation that we apply to most welfare programs, which attack the symptoms and not the virus. We cannot dismiss out of hand the opportunity Norplant presents, but neither can we ignore the challenge. The consequences could be ruinous if we do not prove...
Although he rewarded them with bonuses of up to 20%, it was not enough to keep a cabal of fed-up senior officers from secretly engineering his ouster. While it has become common for rebellious corporate boards to dismiss underachieving CEOs for uneven performance, this may be the first instance of a board's firing a chief executive for erratic behavior...
Tracy, with the modesty of a freshman, is more than pleased with his performance so far, and he's quick to dismiss any comparisons between this year's freshman goalies (Tracy and Aaron Israel) and Allain Roy '92 and Chuckie Hughes '92, who led Harvard to the NCAA championship in their first years...