Word: dismissiveness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...opposition leaders took no comfort in Musharraf's conditional agreement to loosen his grip on the military. If the man who tried--and failed--last spring to dismiss an increasingly independent Chief Justice of the Supreme Court loses at the polls next month, critics fear a declaration of martial law could soon follow...
...message out, Wansink conducts some of his lab studies in unscientific, attention-grabbing ways that many of his academic peers find showboaty. Some dismiss his work as "Happy Meal studies." Wansink counters that his approach hits people where they live--and eat. "Once you're in a bar giving people chicken wings, people say, 'Oh, I can relate to that,'" he says, referring to an experiment in which he showed that subjects watching the Super Bowl at a bar ate 28% more chicken wings when the waitresses cleared the bones from the table than when the bones piled up. "That...
...Musharraf's efforts to engineer a similar legal coup for his second term started to unravel last March when he attempted, and failed, to dismiss the increasingly independent supreme court Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry. Since then his popularity, which was at record highs when he first took power from a Prime Minister widely seen as corrupt and out of touch, has plummeted to levels below that of Osama bin Laden (though still higher than U.S. President George W. Bush, according to a new poll). Last week, through his lawyer, Musharraf promised the Supreme Court that he would step down...
...others dismiss the survey, saying its findings reflect its designers’ conservative views. ISI’s site says the institute aims to imbue college students with “a better understanding of the values and institutions that sustain a free and virtuous society.” The institute’s president, T. Kenneth Cribb Jr., served as President Ronald Reagan’s top domestic policy adviser...
...that kid” in your humanities section. He crowds out other discussion with big, overreaching generalizations. He challenges the TF whenever possible. His vocabulary is expansive, but he is given to the occasional malapropism. Everyone despises him, but he is intelligent enough that no one can dismiss him out of hand. (It should be noted that he can also be a she.) For the first few meetings of a section, a single domineering, pretentious personality can positively ruin discussion. But then something remarkable starts happening. His presence introduces such a dysfunctional level of frustration that others begin to overcome...