Word: dismissiveness
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...claim that the KAL plane was on a spy mission and flew in tandem with the RC-135 for ten minutes so that the blips of the two planes merged on Soviet radar screens. When they separated, he implied, the Soviets could not tell which was which. U.S. officials dismiss this scenario as ludicrous. The two planes, they say, passed each other 86 miles apart headed in opposite directions. At first, the Soviets reportedly referred to the Korean jet as an RC-135. Relays of fighters-ten in all, according to Ogar-were sent aloft to intercept the wayward plane...
...should have the grace to conceal it, or at least to sound a little guilty about it; Buckley luxuriates in his amenities a bit too much, and one hears in his prose the happy sigh of a man sinking into a hot bath. So his enemies try to dismiss him as Marie Antoinette in a pimpmobile. They portray him as, among other things, a terrible, terminal snob...
...national groups only indirectly. In Massachusetts a group called MassDIVEST a coalition of local groups. Spearheaded a recent successful lobbying effort to secure legislation in the Massachusetts House. The House voted to completely divest all state pension funds from companies operating in South Africa Officials of the organization dismiss the importance of national groups in the success, say one it was primarily a local effort...
...finding the officers innocent, Dumbutshena said their stories of mistreatment had "the ring of truth," while the government had mustered "very little incriminating evidence." Dumbutshena, however, is powerless to dismiss the new government detention order. It will confine the men indefinitely while a tribunal evaluates the government's case for jailing them. The order continues a disturbing trend in Zimbabwe: in the past year, eight other people found not guilty of security-related crimes have nevertheless been rearrested without charge. Increasingly, it seems, Mugabe is uncomfortable leaving justice in the hands of the courts...
...national groups only indirectly. In Massachusetts, a group called MassDIVEST, a coalition of local groups, spearheaded a recent successful lobbying effort to secure legislation in the Massachusetts House. The House voted to completely divest all state pension funds from companies operating in South Africa. Officials of the organization dismiss the importance of national groups in the success, saying it was primarily a local effort...