Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Business is up 122% over last year. Morande talks bemusedly of visiting a retail stove store in Portland, Ore., where ten salesmen, gracing 1,000 sq. ft. of floor space, "actually were handing consumers numbers, just like in a delicatessen, to wait in line for a stove." Some economists dismiss such sales as "life-style purchases, made to express social attitudes." Believers go right on cutting, scrounging and burning wood...
...easy to dismiss such tiny projects as tinkering?as it is easy to dismiss the wood-stove phenomenon. Crab wastes and the body heat of chickens are not going to save postindustrial America (though Ecologist Barry Com- moner believes that methane, generated from a wide variety of wastes and especially grown crops, could stretch declining natural gas supplies and help the U.S. bridge the 50-year period before it can achieve what he thinks possible: a completely solar-powered society). But the Department of Energy does not dismiss such ideas?and there may be wisdom here. What the woodburners...
...really say this? I don't believe it!" in a horrified tone which plagued me all day. Several women who attended the dinner were furious at the implication which could be drawn because the quote had been taken out of context. When my anger subsided, I decided to dismiss the issue as a case of irresponsible journalism...
This narrative of the response to my statement exemplifies the point I had raised at the RUS dinner. In relating the wonders and pitfalls of being a professional woman I cautioned that successful moments are often tainted by people who are quick to dismiss or qualify your ability and attribute a woman's achievement to affirmative action. At some point most women, including myself, rise to the bait and launch into a tirade stressing that they are extremely capable and deserving of their position. This surge of anger is not likely to change anyone's mind. Offering no catharsis, anger...
...warned about the political consequences of this theory, we feel that these developments can neither be ignored nor minimized. We, and others, have pointed out that the pernicious social conclusions of the theory are based on a faculty methodology and a misuse of the scientific evidence. American sociobiologists cannot dismiss the European political applications of their work as distortions of a sound scientific doctrine. Rather, these applications are the logical extension of a theory whose very assumptions reflect the political perspective of the sociologists...