Word: dismissiveness
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...control advocates are distraught over this development, predicting a rise in everything from road-rage episodes to gang violence. Gun toters may wrongly assume they have "total immunity from prosecution," said Miami police chief John Timoney. The law's supporters dismiss such concerns as liberal hysteria and extol the bill's passage as a victory for law-abiding citizens. Wayne LaPierre, the N.R.A.'s excruciatingly macho executive vice president, crowed, "[This will] make criminals pause before they commit their next rape, robbery or murder...
...easy for DeLay's allies to dismiss signs of erosion in his support early last week when they were largely confined to criticism by moderate Republican Congressman Chris Shays, often a voice of dissent within the ranks. But it was more difficult after 10 former Congressmen, all Republicans, signed a letter to House Speaker Dennis Hastert imploring him to reverse recent revisions in the House rules that were apparently designed to shield DeLay from being investigated by the ethics committee. What's more, conservative Tom Tancredo of Colorado, while professing his confidence in DeLay's innocence, told his hometown paper...
PENN: We shouldn't dismiss the possibility that the U.N. came strictly because Nicole was in the picture, and they wanted to meet...
...good news that no one could dismiss as a lucky fluke. The Department of Labor last week announced that consumer prices rose a mere .2% in September, the same rate as for the past four months. Largely because of declining food and energy prices, inflation is now running at an annual pace of just 2.3%, its lowest level since...
...genocide. In addition to looking the other way through an ever-growing series of genocides, Annan is presiding over the oil-for-food scandal, one of the largest humanitarian crimes in history, and accusations of multiplying cases of rape and pedophilia committed by U.N. troops the world over. To dismiss Havel as a no-name lightweight compared to Annan, as you do in your otherwise well-reasoned editorial supporting John Lithgow ’67, is a disgrace not only to liberals and victims of the U.N. in particular but also to all your readers...