Word: dismissiveness
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There is no margin for artistic error or experiment. Producers have been known to come on the set to dismiss directors who fall behind the customary ten-day shooting schedule...
...either the moon or Mars. At the height of the Mercurian day, they may reach 940° F., more than enough to melt lead. At night they plunge to - 350° F. No living things could be expected to endure such a harsh climate; yet scientists do not entirely dismiss the possibility of some day finding evidence that water-or even life-once existed on Mercury...
...Smithsonian Institution, examined the film some 30 times and wrote Patterson in May 1968, "There was nothing I could see that could conclusively indicate a hoax." In his 1973 book, Bigfoot: The Yeti and Sasquatch in Myth and Reality, Napier explained his having told Argosy magazine not to dismiss the film. "In effect," he wrote, "what I meant was that I could not see the zipper; and I still...
...this week, then soon thereafter. Whenever it happens, says Federal Energy Chief William Simon, it would "make our job a hell of a lot easier. We will be able to supply industry with 100% of its needs and allow it to grow." Another immediate result: the Government would dismiss any thought of imposing nationwide gas rationing; the ration coupons that Government printing offices are still turning out would never be used...
...most part, newsmen stationed in Hong Kong-with easier access to seasoned China experts as well as Chinese returning from mainland visits-tend to file more knowing reports on politicking within China's hierarchy. Hong Kong-based reporters dismiss the Peking corps' output as mainly "sights, sounds and smells." Yet, as Burns points out, there is a wide market for atmospheric human-interest tales. Thus Burns recently filed a poignant portrait of an elderly White Russian émigré in the remote northern city of Harbin. Last spring he ran in Peking's annual seven-mile "round...