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The administration has brushed off the charges with the same deft techniques--the dodge, the denial, and the claim of irrelevancy--that characterized its handling of Flytrap.
The WP front-pager on this states that for five years, the U.S. Army "brushed aside" these very allegations, and the LAT's front effort calls the military's current stance an "abrupt about-face."
Because the company thought its brand name was irresistible, it brushed off the challenge posed by Microsoft's Encarta CD-ROM encyclopedia, and when it first introduced the CD-ROM version of its own encyclopedia, it priced it so high that Encarta was essentially handed the market.
ham slice brushed subterranean green.
the press has brushed aside the question of what exactly is wrong with the explanation that the situation creates the perception of impropriety."