And she recommends that the millions in civil damages awarded in brutality cases be paid not by city governments, as now, but by the police departments themselves, giving police chiefs a financial incentive to identify and punish or dismiss problem officers.
For the cynical observer, it's easy to the dismiss problem of connectivity as a distraction from the more pressing challenges of international development.
But stock investors have a bad habit of dismissing problems in the credit markets until it is too late.
— ANNIE LOWREY Just eight months before the Fed would have to help stage a $85 billion rescue for A.I.G., Charles I. Plosser of the Philadelphia Fed dismissed problems among such companies.
The inquiry comes as personal injury lawyers are showing renewed interest in failures of tires made by other manufacturers, which, like Firestone until this week, have dismissed problems as resulting from customers' neglect of the tires.
"No matter what went wrong, she was somehow able to keep her hands clean," Mr. McClellan writes, adding that "she knew how to adapt to potential trouble, dismiss brooding problems, and come out looking like a star".
Both men and women are resistant to talk about gender, or are quick to dismiss the problems of gender.
This, he says "makes one point over and over: like smallpox or polio, racism has been all but eradicated" (When it comes to race, the move-on brigade can't dismiss the problems, G2, 28 September).
Grigg-Spall, who is a passionate advocate of raised awareness about the pill's risks to women, believes that its side-effects are minimised not just because of feminism, which cannot help but see the pill's advantages as outweighing its disadvantages, because they do, but also because of sexism, which tends to dismiss female problems as trivial and male advantages as important.
Reed's book is a response to the proposals to withdraw legal aid for many family cases and while she doesn't dismiss the problems this will cause, she believes that litigants who represent themselves need not be at a significant disadvantage if they have the right information.
