Word: dismissiveness
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They say that there are plenty of condominiums available to those tenants who wish to buy one. And they dismiss as "inflammatory" campaign hyperbole White's contention that homeownership is "illegal" in Cambridge...
They say that there are plenty of condominiums available to those tenants who wish to buy one. And they dismiss as "inflammatory" campaign hyperbole White's contention that homeownership is "illegal" in Cambridge...
...controversy surrounding an alleged case of racial harassment by city police last March ended this summer when a civilian review board voted unanimously to dismiss the complaint filed by two Black Harvard students...
...Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD)--where Schkolnick filed her complaint in December 1988--has still not reached a verdict. Last spring, the commission tabled a Fly Club motion to dismiss the case and announced it would reach a verdict based on currently available information. That decision ended months of legal jockeying between Baker and the Fly Club's attorneys, whom MCAD labeled uncooperative at one point...
...powerful smugglers. In Mexico President Carlos Salinas de Gortari is prosecuting some formerly untouchable drug lords and officials, notably Jose Antonio Zorrilla Perez, the feared former chief of the Federal Security Directorate. But the State Department and the DEA are split over what to do about Cuba. State officials dismiss the executions of General Arnaldo Ochoa Sanchez and three other officers, allegedly for drug trafficking, as being really intended to destroy Fidel Castro's rivals. DEA officials argue that whatever Castro's motives, his antidrug posturing should be exploited...