Word: dismissiveness
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...physical health. Moreover, said Gesell, a doctor indicted under the statute was "presumed guilty" unless he could prove to a jury that the operation was necessary. In the companion case of a nurse's aide named Shirley Boyd who had performed an abortion, Judge Gesell refused to dismiss the indictment on the grounds that only licensed physicians may do such surgery. But the judge agreed with Mrs. Boyd's argument that the law results in discrimination against the poor...
Certainly many dropout types fit Blaine's description-as do many adults. But to dismiss hippies as people who haven't grown up is simplistic in the extreme. Surely a life style which stresses enjoyment of the present instead of planning for the future can attract people who aren't emotional infants...
...JUST isn't intellectually fashionable to dismiss student radicalism as part of an international Communist conspiracy. But psychiatrists like the University of Chicago's Bruno Beuclhcim have hit upon a more sophisticated method of diverting attention from racial criticism of American society. Like the right-wing paranoids, they do this by assuming that radicals can't really be all that unhappy with society-that there must be something else behind their protests. To these psychiatrists, that something can be found in Freudian psychological theories...
...Superior Court Justice yesterday agreed in principle to dismiss the trespass charges against 105 persons accused of occupying University Hall last April...
This year, starts of houses and apartments dropped from an annual rate of 1,900,000 in January to 1,300,000 in August. Despite a September upturn, which most economists dismiss as a freak performance by volatile statistics, the rate of housing starts may dip below 1,000,000 by year's end. "We are facing the worst housing shortage that we have had since the end of World War II," says Walter Hoadley, executive vice president of California's Bank of America. "The crisis is going to get worse...