In his testimony, he was especially pessimistic about any easing of energy prices, dismissing suggestions that they were being driven by speculation in futures markets.
The early jump in the share price, dismissed by Cable as "froth and speculation" was followed by a continued rise to a peak of 618p in January.
At the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2012, when he was still a Republican Congressman from Georgia, Price dismissed the notion that any woman might need help affording contraceptives.
UPDATE 2pm The company has now responded to the slump in its share price, dismissing the Spotlight Research report as either inaccurate or old.
There are those who suggest that the museum's patrician -- and largely white -- board was quietly debating whether to flee to the suburbs like so many others, though Ms. Price dismisses those accounts.
A third charge of manipulating the company's share price was dismissed.
Yet it was greeted with hilarity and ridicule, while the most important introduction of a minimum alcohol price was dismissed for boosting supermarket profits.
Politically, raising money through the tax on petrol, protests notwithstanding, has proved far easier than it would have been to collect the cash through increases in income tax or in the broadly based value-added tax or, for that matter, through congestion-based road-pricing (always dismissed as "politically impossible").This seems odd.
The Republicans do not seem to have paid an electoral price for dismissing the idea as class warfare and preventing its implementation in Congress.
I explained that our son, Antonio, 10, recently told me about a toy he wanted, but when he saw the price tag, he dismissed it.
Croyle and his teammates were rebuffed in their attempts to persuade the university president Robert E. Witt to retain Price, who was dismissed after visiting a strip club in Pensacola, Fla., and having a woman order more than $1,000 in room service at his hotel there.
