41.   PRI campaign spokesman Carlos Velasco dismissed the allegations as sour grapes because the PRI is ahead in the polls.

42.   Police dismissed both allegations.

43.   Russian authorities said the videotape was a fake, and have dismissed most allegations of atrocities as rebel propaganda.

44.   Ryabov, the election commission chairman, dismissed the allegations as a campaign tactic.

45.   Rusty Hardin, a lawyer for Andersen, dismissed the allegation.

46.   She dismisses allegations that staffers in her department were routinely awarding contracts to friends and family are part of a smear campaign against her.

47.   She also dismissed allegations that her brother may have been a spy for the Chinese government.

48.   Still, Muscovites were not dismissing the allegations out of hand.

49.   Superior Court Judge James Warren recently dismissed allegations against the magazine maker, leaving only Navegar as a defendant in the lawsuit.

50.   The allegations were dismissed.