Word: dismissiveness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...create websites, post ads in the local college press, employ students to hand out pamphlets outside our classrooms and visit greek houses to market products. Companies give out freebies and hold contests that offer lucrative prizes. Marketing techniques and the quest for profit have even lead these companies to dismiss professors' complaints and make misleading and false statements in the press, claiming support from professors and students...
Hockey is a game of aggressive body checks, tough physical confrontation and exciting competition. Feel free to dismiss the criminal aspect of McSorley's brutal, cowardly act, but please leave Canada and its national pastime...
...myth Bezos tried to dismiss was that the "Internet changes everything." The Internet, said Bezos, "doesn't change people." With an explosion in online retailers, Bezos claimed that brand names are even more important online than in traditional brick and mortar businesses...
...helping the son, isn't the campaign at some level a crusade to redeem the dad, right a big wrong and in the process exceed every expectation--and then some? Ask old Bush hands about how much of this race is about that race, and most dismiss it out of hand, even though nearly all of them will admit to you that's why they are back in the fight. Only two or three will even talk about George W.'s complex motivation, and those who do choose their words carefully. "Look," says a Bush confidant, "somebody once said that...
...There's no surprise in this decision, since it is common for medical reports that are being used as grounds to dismiss a court case to be made available to both sides," says TIME London bureau chief Jef McAllister. "Straw had been accused of keeping the records out of the hands of those pushing for Pinochet's extradition to make it easier to get the general out of the country. Now his stay will be prolonged, reviving the government's greatest concern - that Pinochet dies in Britain." The medical records that prompted Straw to conclude that the general's physical...