Word: dismissiveness
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Earlier studies linking marijuana use to lowered sexual prowess have been largely discounted because they lacked proper controls. But the new study by researchers at the Reproductive Biology Research Foundation of St. Louis and the University of California at Los Angeles will be harder to dismiss because it was so carefully conducted. The researchers found 20 men who volunteered for the study and confined them to the metabolic research ward of U.C.L.A.'s Neuropsychiatric Institute. There they were forbidden to smoke cigarettes or drink coffee or alcohol, and given no marijuana for eleven days before their testosterone levels were...
DOES this mean that one must dismiss the moral conclusions of the first Author, from Group Portrait With Lady, as just another reporter's invalid conclusions, turned out carefully as truths? Is this chronicler's psyche so immoderate, too, that his patient judgements about what the Social Democratic state has done to its people must be laughed aside? It is too simple to throw those judgements away...
...June, Goodwin, also a former aide to Johnson, said he was dropping out of the project so he would not "harm the women I love" and to "dismiss the totally absurd and irrational doubts that it wasn't her own work...
...Israelis at the eastern edge of the passes, although not in the same places that Jerusalem suggested. The lines drawn by the Egyptians came so close to the big Israeli airbase at Bir Gifgafa that Rabin, even before he consulted with his Cabinet, appeared on Israeli television to dismiss Cairo's suggestions out of hand...
Three of the board's seven blacks and all four of the whites then voted to dismiss Sizemore. When it became clear that she would not quit, the board voted last week to offer her two one-year consulting contracts totaling $50,000 if she would leave quietly and drop the remaining 14 months of her $41,700-a-year contract. At week's end, Sizemore was considering the offer...