Word: dismissed
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...world has been too quick to dismiss the U.S. Its political culture, though chaotic, allows for the vigorous debate that leads to self-correction, while Americans remain unparalleled in their ability to innovate. That's why the U.S. is still a beacon of hope and opportunity. The number of professionals with advanced degrees who became permanent U.S. residents in fiscal 2008 was eight times greater than...
...don’t watch Lou Dobbs, so I don’t know,” Gingrich said. “But if we’re going to dismiss incendiary people, then I can think of two or three people on MSNBC who should be dismissed as well...
Still, Ferguson is quick to dismiss his own celebrity and emphasizes that ideas are the real currency in his world...
...issue of illegal immigration has never been a simple one, nor has the problem been particularly well served by heavy-handed policy. But this is precisely the type of action that the Obama administration has espoused by forcing model employer American Apparel to dismiss 1,800 unauthorized workers. Such a move is tremendously shortsighted and does not represent a refined and intelligent policy, but rather a Band-Aid fix to a problem that needed a suture a long time...
...only for this reason and this reason only, Democrats should take care not to dismiss, ignore, or lampoon speeches about morals. Although the FRC may not represent the set of traditional values the majority of Americans wish the government to promote, it does not bode well for Democrats to dismiss their points of view as extremist. This only serves to promote the image of the party platform as a mere checklist of economic reforms—an image that has lost us more than one election in the past...