Word: dismissiveness
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...Prime Minister has betrayed the task entrusted to him," he sternly declared. "He has deprived many citizens of their fundamental liberties. And now he is involving the country in an awful civil war. Therefore, I have decided to dismiss the government." Naming moderate Senate President Joseph Ileo, 38, as new Premier, he added a hopeful plea that the army lay down its arms...
...most important work: his year-round classes for hand-picked students from all over the world. At his summer home in Arezzo near Florence last week, Michelangeli was presiding over his latest international class of 34, enforcing iron discipline but treating musical problems with immense patience. He can dismiss a student at a moment's notice if he fails to show the "talent and good will"; yet he never takes fees from those who stay...
...remaining monarchs who is more than merely decorative. At 41, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, Shahanshah (King of Kings) of Iran, is undisputed boss of his nation. "His Imperial Majesty is above everything," a Teheran newspaper recently explained to its readers. "Constitutionally. he can appoint or dismiss a Premier as he sees fit. He can also dissolve parliament if he so chooses. He decides on which projects his country needs, bills that should be presented for passage by the legislature, and on the conduct generally of home and foreign policy...
...schedule new elections this month. Opposition candidates would be permitted, and the elections were to be completely free. But he explained candidly: "As head of the state, I am above parties, and organizations. If the government is not working properly, even though it has a majority, I can dismiss the government and disband the Majlis. What difference does it make to me who becomes a Deputy...
...trouble-I have just the same symptoms." To laymen, who think that the relatively useless prostate is the male's exclusive property, this sounds silly. Even doctors, who know from their anatomy books that glands around a woman's urethra are analogous to the male organ, usually dismiss the diagnosis as implausible...