Word: dismissiveness
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...Peter Jennings, then-host of ABC Nightly News, said voters threw a “temper tantrum” after Republicans won control of Congress. And Time magazine declared on its cover that Newt Gingrich had “perfected the politics of anger.” Democrats dismiss disagreement as mere emotion...
Cambridge city officials filed a motion earlier this month to dismiss charges by Harvard neurologist S. Allen Counter alleging that he had been unfairly arrested three years...
...defendants—Macedo, Fulkerson, and Cambridge City Manager Robert W. Healy—asked the U.S. District Court to dismiss Counter’s complaint for failure to state a claim. In the motion, they argued they were not liable for the injuries Counter claimed, which include financial losses, humiliation, hypertension, high blood pressure, and depression...
...Iraqi government says it plans to appeal the recent decision by a U.S. court to dismiss charges against five Blackwater guards accused of killing 17 unarmed Iraqi civilians in 2007. The presiding judge threw out the case on Dec. 31, citing the prosecution's use of inadmissible statements by the contractors--a technicality that Iraqis called "unacceptable and unjust." Baghdad has pledged to pursue further legal action in U.S. and Iraqi courts...
Siddiqui, who has been held in the U.S. as she awaits trial, has appeared unstable during her court appearances and seems intent on sabotaging her own defense. During two days of jury selection last week, she announced that she would boycott the trial and reiterated her desire to dismiss the U.S. attorneys who were hired for her by the Pakistani government. "I've fired them many times," she said. She then told the judge she didn't want any Jews on the jury "if they have a Zionist or Israeli background," adding, "I have a feeling everyone here is them...