Word: dismissiveness
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...statute under which the Administration is seeking Morgenthau's ouster is vague about whether the President has to show malfeasance to dismiss an appointee in midterm. Moreover, Morgenthau just might launch an embarrassing campaign to remove U.S. attorneyships from the patronage rolls. He is known to believe that the jobs should not be political plums, though they now rate among the juiciest. Morgenthau's district, for example, has 70 or so assistant attorneys, who are appointed by the Attorney General...
...news reports, but it also offered another argument. By holding Calley in the military beyond his discharge date, said his lawyers, the Army is keeping him in "involuntary servitude." Arguing that a court-martial does not adequately protect a defendant's rights, they made a motion to dismiss the charges. Even Calley's career-Army lawyer, Major Kenneth Raby, concurred, quoting a recent Supreme Court decision that criticizes military trials as "marked by the age-old manifest destiny of retributive justice...
Kuss has also introduced a bill which seeks to prohibit "circulation and publication of excessively obscene literature at public institutions of higher learning." and to dismiss anyone engaging in such activities...
...intensity of her conviction. It was obvious, even before she told me, that she had not had much education. The things she said I might have heard before, but not with the same "naive" intensity. The feeling with which she spoke each word overwhelmed my college-conditioned tendency to dismiss without a second thought any ideas expressed poorly or in cliches. I knew nothing about her, but I could tell that whoever and whatever she was, she was something special. I looked forward to spending time with this haunting, strange, wild girl-a witch, she called herself...
Last spring the Committee of Fifteen, exercising similar powers, separated five students and required another eight to withdraw for a semester or a year for their roles in the occupation of University Hall last April. In addition, the Committee recommended that the Faculty "dismiss" three others-a more severe punishment which the Faculty approved-require 20 to withdraw (but suspended their sentences) and put 99 students under warnings...