Word: dismissiveness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...name of that thing that we become when we are in a room with strangers. It?s a group consciousness. A collective soul. That collective soul is an entity that is smarter than me, smarter than anyone. They?re the ones who love Adam Sandler movies and we dismiss it. The archetype he portrays is so dead-on and pure and needed in our psyche. And when a really arty well-crafted movie does not resonate with them, they are sending you another message. You can say they?re stupid, but I believe in them 100 percent, and that...
...Does the Plame Lawsuit Have a Chance? Analysis: Many legal experts think it won't survive motions to dismiss based on claims of presidential immunity, but it may not be that simple
...against Vice President Cheney and White House senior officials Karl Rove and I. Lewis Libby with skepticism, largely because it will have to overcome an almost certain argument that Cheney and company are, as federal officials, immune to being sued for on-the-job behavior. But the argument to dismiss the lawsuit outright isn?t so simple to make...
...their claims - that ?vindictiveness and illegitimate animus? caused the Administration to treat them differently from others in similar positions, for example, or that the defendants wrongfully disclosed a private fact about Plame - there may be enough ambiguity about what really happened to propel them beyond a motion to dismiss and into discovery, a process that allows each side to demand piles of information from the other. That's a prospect an already shaky White House surely wants to avoid...
...Does the Plame Lawsuit Have a Chance? Analysis: Many legal experts think it won't survive motions to dismiss based on claims of presidential immunity, but it may not be that simple