Word: dispelled
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...Exactly what those profits will be remains a matter of speculation. Bayer?s stock price has not shown any dramatic response to the anthrax scares. The company is quick to dispel such speculation: Wednesday morning, Bayer?s French division angrily denied accusations that the company is profiteering from the anthrax scare. "We are scandalized and outraged by this accusation," a spokesperson said. She went on to explain that while prices on the drugs have gone up somewhat in the past several weeks, that increase was only to cover the costs of newly frenetic manufacturing and shipping. (Bayer has tripled...
...panelists also tried to dispel the conception of Muslims as angry proponets of holy war, or “jihad...
...become less spontaneous and more calculated. At the halfway point the album starts to sound like thick syrup. The tempo starts to pick up in the last quarter, but it is too little, too late. Unfortunately, Laetitia Sadier’s characteristic vocal monotone and dense lyrics do not dispel Sound-Dust’s narcotic effect. After listening to Sound-Dust, you will wonder how an intro, and group, with such potential could have resulted in this mediocre recording...
DIED. ROBERT MCAFEE BROWN, 81, witty, accessible Presbyterian theologian who championed ecumenism and civil rights and served with Elie Wiesel on President Carter's Holocaust Commission; in Greenfield, Mass. Brown, whom TIME once called "the Catholics' favorite Protestant," co-wrote the book An American Dialogue to help dispel anti-Catholic prejudice against John F. Kennedy...
...each worker with an analysis of his skills and helps organize retraining if necessary. Dismissed employees joining the plan have to show up every morning just as if they still had jobs. Ulf Westergren, director of production support at Ericsson, says that among other benefits the outplacement system helps dispel the depression that often comes with job loss. Masifi has decided he wants to be a bus driver, which pays roughly the same salary as his Ericsson job. So he will take a course, arranged by the outplacement program, to get a bus driver's license. "I think...