Word: dismissiveness
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However, the judge did not dismiss the indictment against Younis, who is the first person to be charged under a 1984 federal hostage-taking statute that gives the U.S. jurisdiction over terrorist acts overseas involving American citizens. His trial is scheduled to begin March...
They soon found out. Moving swiftly on Noriega's behalf, the National Assembly met in an emergency 1:15 a.m. session. In a ten-minute gathering attended by 38 of the body's 67 lawmakers, members voted unanimously to dismiss Delvalle, hitherto regarded as a Noriega puppet, and Vice President Roderick Esquivel. Though Delvalle insisted that he still held office, Education Minister Manuel Solis Palma, 71, was sworn in as President before dawn. Panama's military leaders left no doubt as to where they stood. Colonel Marcos Justines, whom Delvalle had named to succeed Noriega as chief of the Panamanian...
...specifics," said White House Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater. "We want a realistic assessment of what the problem is and how much it's going to cost, and it sounds like that's what they're going to give us." Says Domestic Policy Adviser Gary Bauer: "We wouldn't dismiss anything just because of the cost." Still, skeptics doubt whether the President or Congress will really use the ambitious blueprint as a guide. Watkins professes to be unconcerned. "It's not in our charter to worry about the political impact," he said. "There has not been a national strategy. The national policy...
...more likely to be noticed in younger people because they are so out of character. But families and doctors too often overlook depression in the elderly. The warning signs may sometimes be subtle: headaches, stomach ailments, vague complaints of not feeling right. And there is always the tendency to dismiss the signals as normal aging, just old folks' crankiness. When depression is recognized, counseling and drugs successfully treat three-quarters of the cases...
...question of efficacy -- and differing assumptions about hard-core drug abusers. "The junkie is not educable," declares Father Terence Attridge, director of the substance-abuse program for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York. "You have to get addicts off needle use. It's the only way." Others dismiss such assertions. "Addicts do want treatment," contends Dr. Robert Newman, a founder of drug-treatment clinics and president of Manhattan's Beth Israel Medical Center. "It's wrong to think that as a group they don't care about their health." In fact, demand for IV drug-abuse treatment...