Word: dismissiveness
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...drivers decided Sunday to ask Teamsters Local 379 for union affiliation. After researching National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) precedents, the Teamsters decided Wednesday that the NLRB would dismiss the drivers' petition for a union election "in a minute...
...public service employment programs, which would cost more than $3.7 billion next year. They pay the salaries of 1,600 employees in city government and nonprofit agencies in San Francisco alone. Arkansas may lose as many as 2,500 workers, while New York City will dismiss 11,500. "Most of ours will end up going back on welfare," complains Ronald Gault, New York's employment commissioner. Yet of all Reagan's budget cuts, the controversial CETA program may be among the least missed. Says Cleveland Mayor George Voinovich, whose city has 500 CETA workers: "CETA was supposed...
Schubert is slight, talkative, almost theatrical in manner; self-possessed, self-confident, but not self-centered or egotistical. He knows the limits of his talents, and knows them to be expanding. He is a sharp critic, quick to dismiss music he considers "difficult to listen to," or "dentist office material;" but he is equally critical of his own work, and equally quick to acknowledge debts and praise heroes...
...that's the way the world is, and we might as well go on killing for honor or ideology or money. Not the most sensible conclusion, especially in a nuclear age, but it seems to be the standard operating philosophy for most countries, including our own. Or, we could dismiss war as unthinkable and retreat into an eyes-closed pacifism, content with the status quo if only it means no one will...
...into its ranks. One finally made it through the rounds of parties and his name was brought up for election. But those who harbored hopes for his election forgot about another club tradition: black balling. Like the judicial role that let the lawyers for the Klansmen in Greensboro, N.C., dismiss possible jurors because they didn't like the look in their eyes, the black ball is a simple concept. Any member can reject any nominee for membership if he doesn't like something about the nominee--school background, personality, skin color, sexual preference or taste in shoes...