Word: dismissiveness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Evidence linking Hekmatyar to the attacks has yet to be produced and some Western diplomats dismiss the "coup plot" as a government attempt to sideline rivals ahead of the June 22 'loya jirga,' a national assembly that will choose an interim government to rule for the next two years. Even if the Hekmatyar threat is exaggerated, Karzai must still deal with internal splits. "The cabinet is deeply divided," says the interim leader's adviser. "But that's the government given to him by the U.N. in Bonn and he has to work with it." A power struggle between Defense Minister...
Pahlavi is getting a better hearing on Capitol Hill and on Washington's diplomatic circuit. Until recently his case was easy to dismiss. To Islamic conservatives in Iran, he is a nightmare, while to reformists, he poses the most serious threat of all--an alternative to their milder vision of the Islamic republic...
...official data on skinhead violence exist, but an estimate by journalists and foreign embassies suggests that skinhead assaults have left more than a dozen foreigners dead and 100 hospitalized in Moscow since May 2000. Similar attacks have taken place in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Novgorod. Russian officials dismiss these incidents as simple hooliganism but can't deny that they have become more common. "There is a sharp increase in physical and verbal attacks against foreigners," says a senior U.S. embassy official...
...addition to the fact that it’s been exploited as an gimmick (“My sense is that [hypnosis shows] trivialize what’s really interesting, and also leads many people to dismiss hypnosis as nothing but stage-show silliness,” Kosslyn says), hypnosis’ sketchy reputation stems from real academic dispute. “Different perspectives led to a difficulty in even agreeing upon a definition for hypnosis,” says William L. Thompson, one of Kosslyn’s research assistants. Some scientists believe that a hypnotic state must...
...Times’ short-sightedness on this topic makes it understandable why they could dismiss athletes so incredibly easily. Their position overlooks all the unique, positive additions that athletics bring to a college environment, such as teamwork, diligence at improvement and perseverance toward goals. (In fact, it would do many of the ambitious students at this school well to practice the same sportsmanship so many athletes use to overcome slumps, errors and heartbreaking losses...