Word: dismissiveness
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...Crimson: How could you completely dismiss this major story on Monday, and dismiss it with a cursory nod on Tuesday? Were your reporters asleep? Or is it that hypocrisy and injustice like this go on all the time in the council and you simply chose to leave it unreported? Matt Drummy...
...military spending raised merely through more slashes in the domestic budget was unnerving even to the Republican leadership of the Senate. Indeed, the current year's deficit of $203 billion is greater than the combined total of all discretionary domestic appropriations. Yet this time Congress cannot heedlessly dismiss the President's proposals. Looming in the background is the specter of the Gramm-Rudman law, passed last year, which threatens automatic cuts if the deficit is not reduced to $144 billion in 1987 and to zero by 1991. On Friday a three-judge federal panel declared the triggering mechanism of that...
...Students and faculty have been wary of our project because they assume we are hostile toward all corporations and toward the recruiting process in general. If our purpose were as The Crimson states it is, then those who are initially wary of our intentions would have every right to dismiss our report as an attempt to impose our own values on others. This certainly is not the case. Our report seeks only to raise questions on the topic of corporate social responsibility which students may want to consider as they begin the recruiting process. John Carey...
Spence said the reasons for Collins's decisionnot to return are "largely personal, although Idon't mean to dismiss the difficulties he had lastyear...
...from his supporters, including Prime Minister Laurent Fabius. Neither leader would comment on the subject of the discussions, but sources now indicate that the two talked about an air link for Soviet Jews to Israel via Poland. Such discussions are, however, denied by Jaruzelski's aides, and Israeli officials dismiss a broker role for Poland. Indeed, Budapest and Bucharest have been mentioned in the Moscow discussions as possible transit points, according to one source. Yet two weeks ago Bronfman visited Warsaw and, say W.J.C. sources, discussed with Jaruzelski the emigration of Soviet Jews...