Word: dismissiveness
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...think I'm one of the suspects that is usually rounded up," laughs Adams University Professor Bernard Bailyn when asked if he's thought about becoming dean of the Faculty But Bailyn. One of academia's most prominent American historians is quick to dismiss the idea...
...Hoover Institution; and Robert Destro, law professor at Catholic University. Critics who had held still for the 1981 firings howled that Reagan was trying to pack the commission with a majority that would uncritically approve his civil rights record, and lately have questioned whether he has legal power to dismiss commissioners (the law is unclear). The Senate took no action to confirm his appointees. The White House stormed that the three had distinguished civil rights records and were being sidetracked only because they are opposed to school busing and racial and sex quotas in hiring...
...mainstream of America." He added that the proposal, if approved, "may make it too easy to characterize the movement for nuclear arms control as kooky." The referendum will not make instant converts of the conservative white House or congressman. It will make it easier for them to dismiss the broader based concern for arms control as extremist and to continue their dangerous policies...
...selected Oklahoma. Philadelphia had a day for him. The local paper published a commemorative "Marcus Dupree" issue. Highway signs were mounted to declare a new identity, "Philadelphia, Mississippi, Home of Marcus Dupree," and dismiss an old one. "I never thought about being a symbol until everybody started talking about it," he said. "I just thought I'd be another regular running back...
...ORWELLIAN NIGHTMARE of an omnipresent Big Brother intrigued and frightened the reader of the 1940's and 1950's. Today, we casually dismiss such scenarios as fanciful tales or impossibilities. But unknown to most Americans, the Administration has proposed a sweeping plan to monitor the public activities of government officials on a scale unprecedented in our history. Last week, the Senate wisely delayed the implementation of the President's controversial directive to subject federal employees to random lie detector tests and lifelong censorship. The rule (which will now go into effect next April) would have applied to officials cleared...