Word: dismissiveness
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...Docket Committee does not dismiss thecase, Knowles must form an ad hoc grievancepanel--composed of Faculty members who are either serving on the Faculty Council or have servedin the past five years...
While Harvard and other universities across the country tend to dismiss rankings such as those published in US News and World Report, which are partially based on opinion, universities take Science Watch's study seriously...
...would be easy to dismiss this and similar stories popping up across the U.S. as overreactions by overwrought parents. Or to trash the recent federal policy requiring airlines to provide peanut-free zones to customers who request them. After all, most peanut allergies are more annoying than life threatening. You just learn what foods you can eat, never swap lunch bags and avoid certain restaurants...
...presidency remains all-powerful. So Yeltsin can retain the initiative simply by doing nothing." But the political deal that will underwrite a new government -- whoever is at its head -- is likely to strip the presidency of many of its executive powers, including the right to appoint and dismiss the government. So the current silence could be Yeltsin's autocratic swan song. And constitutionally, it can last only until Monday...
...even if Yeltsin can hang on, he is a profoundly diminished political figure. His aides last week started negotiating with the Duma over a "political agreement" that would alter the Constitution by taking away the President's power to issue decrees on the economy, limiting his ability to dismiss and appoint governments and transferring many of those prerogatives to the parliament and the Cabinet. In other words, these were the terms for Yeltsin's surrender. In return, the parliament would halt impeachment proceedings and pass a law giving the President "social guarantees" when he retires...