Word: dismissiveness
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...says John Hudson, chairman of the Cambridge Condominium Network Steering Committee, who sports a Wilkes button on his lapel. The message, he adds, is that the CCA has been "inflexible" on housing issues. And as Abt wrote in her statement to tenants, "without better data, it is irresponsible to dismiss alternatives and to insist on Rent Control and condo controls in exactly their current forms...
...school committee majority fights hard for good staff and teachers, Koocher added, the system's "standards of expertise" in teaching would be in jeopardy, a reference to the School Committee's ongoing dispute with the Cambridge Teachers Association (CTA) over which teachers to keep and which teachers to dismiss because of cuts in the budget...
...Korean War. Yao notes that while "the British, the Russians, the Japanese, have given China hell" over the past few centuries, the U.S. has been more friendly--except, of course, for the period which has spanned most of his life. That period, though, Yao is willing to dismiss: "an unfortunate episode," he calls it, but one which he hopes will not impede future friendly relations between the U.S. and his homeland...
...Arif Hussain and Dr. Eugene Sherry were placed on an unpaid leave of absence following their conviction three months ago, but the hospital's excutive committee decided not to dismiss them until the appeal of the rape charge was decided...
...Brigham and Women's Hospital board of trustees voted this week to dismiss two doctors nearly two months after they were convicted of rape. Dr. Arif Hussain and Dr. Eugene Sherry, now free pending the appeal of their cases, have been on unpaid leaves of absence since rape charges were brought against them last June. The doctors are appealing the hospital's decision...