Word: dismissiveness
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...Mondale seemed at a psychic remove, Reagan worked at a physical remove, not talking to reporters, heading out perhaps twice a week to address rallies of his believers, to congratulate Americans for acting American and to dismiss the opposition-and, indeed, most complexity in the world-as being archaic, depressive and implicitly unmanly...
Interior officials dismiss the latest assessment of the environmentalists. One spokesman says that Clark is a lawyer and approaches problems on a case-by-case basis. "He did not set out to make a clean sweep, and he did not get rid of everyone that Sierra and Friends of the Earth would like us to get rid of," says Kallman. "He is required under law to consider all constituencies and it is, accordingly, a thankless job." Interior officials say they hope to be able to sit down with representatives of the Sierra Club and the Friends of the Earth...
...Walesa to contentions that the Korean Air Lines jet shot down by the Soviets was on a CIA mission. The issues in the Spiegel case probably are, as its editors said last week, beyond conventional proof. But the broader problem Goldsmith raised is one that knowing journalists cannot easily dismiss...
...popularity, which had been rising steadily since she ordered an army assault on Sikh extremists at the Golden Temple in Amritsar last June. Although Gandhi still denies any involvement in the affairs of Andhra Pradesh, she nonetheless faces two equally unappealing options in the state: she can dismiss the assembly and impose direct rule from New Delhi or allow Rama Rao to be reinstated by a vote of the assembly. Either way she risks more unpopularity and a tough election campaign ahead...
...east. American officials suspected that the announcement might have been triggered by objections from Greek Communists, who are uneasy over the improving relations with the U.S. But because Athens still intends to join in a much larger NATO exercise in October, Greek and foreign observers were prepared to dismiss the sudden demise of Zeus as little more than a sacrificial act by Papandreou to placate the extreme left...