111.   Republican officials dismiss such imaginings as nonsense.

112.   Saying that its scientists simply underestimated the complexity of building the laser, laboratory officials dismiss all accusations that technical problems were intentionally covered up.

113.   Rumors of a massive raid from Fort Bliss, Texas, which federal officials dismissed as paranoid musings, had been swirling through the militia community for weeks.

114.   Senior officials dismissed first-hand accounts of the massacre by correspondents working for Western news agencies in Grozny.

115.   Some Europeans think that the United States secretly supports Fischer, a view Clinton administration officials dismiss as a conspiracy theory with no grounding in reality.

116.   Spanish officials dismiss this argument.

117.   State officials dismiss those arguments as gloom-and-doom predictions.

118.   State Democratic Party officials Thursday dismissed the matter as baseless.

119.   Still, Discovery officials dismissed that as a possibility.

120.   The defense and intelligence officials dismissed the possibility that the United States could have misinterpreted the soil sample.