Word: dismissiveness
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...large amounts of money he will lose his license over this," says one Durham attorney involved in the case. "He should quit, and it's entirely possible he'll dismiss all of the remaining charges before then. We see where this speeding train is heading. " The attorney stressed that the three players do not yet feel totally vindicated, since dropping the rape charges "actually makes the state's case easier...
...minted version of the classic Macy's vs. Gimbel's rivalry? "It's absolutely a battle," says Steven Keith Platt of the Platt Retail Institute, an industry think tank in Hindale, Ill. "They're both going after the same market--the female. She controls the purse strings." Both chains dismiss the notion of a retail slugfest. But it is clear that each chain is borrowing a page from the other's business model. For example, 22 of the 25 stores that Penney opened in the third quarter were situated in very Kohl's-like locales, a different approach...
...episode that is only now receiving international media attention, an officer of the Tempe Police Department in Arizona pulled over two black men last August for throwing garbage out of the car window and said he would dismiss the ticket if they performed a rap for him “about the dangers of littering.” The men complied...
...over the Muslim veil that rages endlessly in Europe is the least of their concerns. They face a daunting array of hardships, from spousal domination at home to gender discrimination in the workplace, and even if they happen to agree that the veil symbolizes their plight, they tend to dismiss criticism of it as a Western attack on their culture...
...Lest we dismiss this story as, to borrow a line from one of its characters, “only literature,” our historian reminds us that it is a history; Kostova not-so-subtly tries to inject an aura of verisimilitude into the novel...