Word: dismissiveness
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...there was no rejoicing in Lagos last week when Babangida announced his retirement from the armed forces and installed a new "interim" government that is plainly intended to serve as his puppet. The transitional government promised to hold another presidential election by the end of next year, but Nigerians dismiss the new businessman-President Ernest Shonekan, one of Babangida's closest cronies, as a front behind whom Babangida will continue to exercise real control...
...Letterman and his staff dismiss any notion that the show will be toned down or changed in any substantive way to suit the earlier time period. In a series of brainstorming meetings on the subject, Letterman and his producers considered several ideas -- expanding the opening monologue, switching from a single chair for guests to a Tonight-style couch -- and rejected them. Says Morton: "We decided we do a pretty darn good show...
Most Omaha residents used to dismiss teenage gunplay as a problem confined to the north side of Omaha, which is largely black and poor. That comfortable notion was shattered last August by a seven-minute fire fight among mostly white teenagers in Benson. "I've lived in this area all my life, and now boys are shooting at each other for the hell of it," says Bonnie Elseman, a single mother in the neighborhood. "I now realize that I owe the blacks in Omaha an apology for ignoring all the shootings because I thought it was just their problem...
...suit, the civil liberties organization charged that Cambridge is enforcing an unconstitutional Massachusetts statute that makes begging illegal, according to Jonathan Shapiro, a staff attorney with the union. The city has moved to dismiss the case, and a Middlesex County court is currently deciding on that motion...
...statement, Marriott said Harvard and three other holders of its preferred stock had agreed to dismiss their case in Delaware court against the hospitality giant in exchange for "an immaterial payment" from Marriott...