Word: dismissiveness
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...they use this judgment to dismiss those students with serious non-sports interests. Do you care about academics? Those who support a women's studies concentration, like those who supported an Afro-American Studies department two decades ago, are thought to be out of their element. Do you care about investment policy? Again, such students are often ignored with smug complacency...
...more cynical among us might dismiss the Kennedy School's current explanation as an innovation conceived in embarrassment, a posture calculated to placate the perturbed. But Harvard's school of politics couldn't deliberately perpetrate such a deception--not such a clumsy...
Once companies acknowledge and confront the drug threat, their first task is to establish a consistent policy that is both firm and fair. Typically, companies decide to dismiss workers caught taking or selling drugs on the job but also offer a helping hand to users who voluntarily admit their problem...
Democrats have long tried to attack Reagan the man, and yet his image as president remains untarnished. They have yet to launch a sustained attack against Reagan the president. When Democrats dismiss Reagan as a "buffoon," they simply demonstrate their ignorance of the powerful changes in public opinion that helped Reagan win office and have supported a string of successes during his administration...
...nature of the rationalizations usually offered in support of state-sanctioned murder. Normally, one could reject remarks like these as unfounded yet insignificant in comparison with more substantive views on the issue. But like it or not, Meese is the attorney general, and one cannot cursorily dismiss his views on capital punishment as having no bearing on the administration of "justice" in the United States...