Word: dismissiveness
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...been visiting California nursing homes for years, told TIME her complaints are regularly ignored because of the "cronyism" that exists between the state overseers and nursing-home operators. "Once we write down violations, the nursing homes complain and our superiors keep us from going back or else they dismiss our citations," she says. This has led to "hopelessness" among inspectors like herself, she says...
...Roper, constructed a Fuhrer on the grand, demonic scale: a Great Bad Man theory of history. Between the poles of Bullock and Trevor-Roper, historians, psychologists and others have brought an anguished ingenuity to trying to account for the monster or, in the newest scholarly and academic literature, to dismiss the old "Hitler-centric" theories in favor of larger abstractions (the German character, Christian anti-Semitism...
...feminists' concerns and activism, exactly what Ms. reports on. Feminism and the women's movement are alive, very well and clearly focused on women's economic, political and social equality. And no, it is not all about white women. Yet you ignore the activism of women of color and dismiss the work being done by feminists of all ages on issues ranging from women's health, human rights, political representation, the environment, and social, economic and racial justice. Well, at least you're consistent. MARCIA ANN GILLESPIE, Editor in Chief Ms. New York City
...does it take so long to fire bad teachers? Each state is different, but most award educators lifetime job protection after just three years on the job. Tenure gives teachers faced with termination a host of stalling tactics--principals seeking to dismiss them must usually file several written reports, wait a year for improvement, file additional poor evaluations, appear at a hearing and perhaps even show up in court to defend the firing. In the meantime, the teacher still gets paid, as does a substitute. And of course the district must spend thousands to pay the lawyers. Not surprisingly, very...
...critics would try to label him as soft on crime, he was initially shocked by the ferocity of Norquist's attack. He explained to TIME that his intention was to show that "we can't solve the drug problem without recognizing its economic dimensions." Indeed, it is difficult to dismiss the report as simply the work of an ivory-tower leftist apologist. Its publisher? The conservative Wisconsin Policy Research Institute...