Word: dismissiveness
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Protest. Many Bermudians dismiss both the theory of narcotics involvement and that of a personal vengeance. They fear that the shootings may nonetheless represent a defiant protest against the last vestiges of British colonialism. "There must have been a political motive," says one government official. "But it's really a symbolic protest. Bermuda is the oldest self-governing colony in the Western Hemisphere. It seems they're trying to knock the symbols out from under...
...would be hasty to dismiss concerns of graduate students as wholly puff and air. But what comes from the grad student union is a sense of deja vu: the remnants of Time's Now Generation still seem to be wanting instant everything...
After the tenants had left the meeting, Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci submitted a motion calling for the City Manager, John H. Corcoran, to dismiss the present members of the Rent Board...
Even more germane for many people, due process is spreading its protection to a wide variety of jobs-most directly to those in which government is the employer. The Supreme Court last year indicated that public schools may not summarily dismiss a teacher who has held his job on a seemingly permanent basis, even if he does not have formal tenure. A Brooklyn court has gone further, ruling that though a nontenured teacher did get a hearing before being dismissed, the dismissal was still illegal because the teacher had been denied a lawyer and a chance to cross examine hostile...
...very sad movie. Sad in miniscule degree because it tries to tell an unhappy story, but sad mainly because Chaplin's former greatness winks from behind the bathos just often enough to let us recognize an artist trapped by his own sentiment. The film would be easier to dismiss had a lesser man made it, but Chaplin, twenty years past his prime, keeps reminding us of his earlier films--not of the Little Tramp he used to play but of the range of emotion his skilled movements could bring forth and of the warmth in his eyes...