Word: dismissiveness
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...dismiss what an association with the dead princess can do for those who want to do good. Andrew Morton is best known as the author of Diana: Her True Story, the 1992 biography that revealed - with Diana?s covert blessing - how unhappy she was in her marriage. But he also chairs Response International, which helps war victims in countries like Bosnia, Kosovo and Lebanon. In 2002, the charity received a grant from the Memorial Fund to support land-mine clearance in Pakistan. "Some of the charity workers have to go where literacy rates are low and suspicion of strangers...
...Kremlin leadership recognizes that a Russia linked more closely to the U.S. and the E.U. will be more prosperous, more democratic and territorially more secure. The U.S. should avoid careless irritants, like its clumsily surfaced initiative to deploy its missile defenses next door to Russia. And it should not dismiss out of hand Moscow's views on, for example, negotiations with Iran, lest Russia see its interests better served by a U.S.-Iran...
...place. Hyman is one of the longest-serving members of the central administration and will bring needed institutional memory and science expertise with him. He has also played a critical role in expanding interdisciplinary science research and conducting academic planning in Allston. It would have been easy to dismiss him because of his connection to Summers, yet Faust made the wiser choice. Faust has also established a reputation as being personable—especially with key donors—and has gracefully coped with the job’s steep learning curve. Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes...
...Siegelman, together with former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy, was convicted on bribery and conspiracy charges and faces sentencing June 26. Lawyers for Siegelman and Scrushy told TIME they were considering whether to use Simpson's affadavit in expected motions to dismiss charges against their clients, or in some other phase of what is likely to be a protracted appeals process...
...recondite abbreviations. This becomes a problem when employers use them to screen applicants, as CORIs are typically used. People with CORIs cannot ascertain the accuracy of their records, and employers use them as an indiscriminate way to weed out applicants; they order CORIs for all job applicants and dismiss applicants if they have a CORI, often without bothering to determine what the charges were or distinguish between guilty and innocent, convicted or released. All this ignorance and misunderstanding violate the implicit trust employers are granted when the government allows them to see this sensitive information.CORIs are necessary and relevant...