Word: dismissiveness
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...fairness we should not dismiss the pomp and ceremony that accompany a State of the Union address. The television pictures of the White House and Capitol floodlighted at night are enough to stir even the most jaded American. The collected leadership in the House chamber dressed in their Sunday best is a grand sight. But more and more the import of the President's words is lost in the hoopla. The sights and sounds become more important than the substance, the entertainment more coveted than the information. When a President delivers a smash speech, he often fools himself into...
...corporate research continues. But without the other stimuli of the 1960s, students are far less likely to muster significant opposition to the way their schools operate. The pressure that foster pervasive careerism only further decrease the chances that students will spend much time on issues they can easily dismiss as "the way things...
Still, such tough-sounding language might give way to calls for compromise if there is no sign of progress in Geneva. U.S. officials pointed out that the East bloc has been talking about a nonaggression pact for more than 25 years and dismissed the Prague plan as a propaganda exercise. The Warsaw Pact proposal, however, was tailored not for the Pentagon but for public opinion in Western Europe, where peace protests are expected to spread as the NATO missile deadline approaches. If Reagan did not dismiss the Prague offer out of hand, it may be because Administration officials are becoming...
Economists might dismiss the President's remedy as frivolous, but their own prescriptions have not helped much either. Faced with a grinding recession that has driven the unemployment rate to 10.8% of the work force, the economics profession has dissolved into a babel of conflicting voices. Result: as the new year gets under way, economists seem further than ever from agreement on how to restore the economy to robust health...
There is a sharp division of opinion in Washington as to how the U.S. negotiators in Geneva should be instructed to reply. The Pentagon counsels simply saying no and insisting on Reagan's zero-zero plan. Defense officials dismiss Andropov's bid as a mere propaganda ploy. They fear that if the U.S. makes a counterproposal, Moscow will ask European governments to delay installation of the American missiles while negotiations continue, then stall the talks endlessly, in effect blocking deployment of the Pershing IIs and cruises without yielding anything...