Word: dismissiveness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...politician generally viewed as South Africa's President-in-waiting was back in court, Monday, for another round in his battle against corruption charges. As lawyers for Jacob Zuma tried to persuade a judge to dismiss as unlawful a total of 16 charges, ranging from money-laundering to racketeering, some 1,000 supporters staged a noisy rally in front of a giant TV screen outside the court in Pietermaritzburg. The hearing is expected to last two days, but the case itself will most likely drag on well beyond next April's elections - in which Zuma, having trounced current president Thabo...
...past few months. She hasn't been able to increase her rates yet, so she has had to take an additional cleaning job to make sure there is enough food at home. She will have to leave my apartment sooner every day; she hopes I will not dismiss her for this...
...evidence that giving kids complete and accurate information about sex and contraception encourages promiscuity. On the other, a purity pledge basically says sex is serious. That it's not to be entered into recklessly. To deny kids information, whether about contraception or chastity, is irresponsible; to mock or dismiss as unrealistic the goal of personal responsibility in all its forms may suit the culture, but it gives kids too little power, too little control over their decisions, as though they're incapable of making good ones. The research suggests they may be more capable of high standards than parents...
...Black Hole War By Leonard Susskind; out now This is the story of a 25-year argument between physicists Susskind and Stephen Hawking over what happens to stuff that falls into a black hole. Hawking says it disappears; Susskind disagrees. You could dismiss it all as nerd-on-nerd violence, but then you'd miss out on Susskind explaining why the universe is actually a hologram...
FARC commanders dismiss the "narco-guerrilla" portrayal as government propaganda and insist they're still a viable rebel movement whose survival doesn't depend on drug income. For his part, Alberto points to his unit's spartan housing conditions - mountain and jungle shacks often without electricity or running water - as proof that they're not exactly living as sumptuously as famous cocaine kingpins like Pablo Escobar...