Word: chides
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Indeed, Lefever has been an apologist for governmental repression in South Africa, South Korea and Chile-governments he defends as merely "authoritarian"-on the unsure ground that these allies are relatively more free than fully "totalitarian" Communist societies. Lefever said he deplored the Carter Administration's tendency to chide certain U.S. allies publicly about their human rights violations. "I don't regard myself as a one-man Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval," he told the committee. "The channels of quiet diplomacy provide a more effective way to encourage greater respect for human rights." When asked by Cranston about...
...uncharitable might chide that certain Philip Morris business activities--their lobbying efforts against returnable bottles, for example--might do more harm than the German expressionists do good. PM says look at the facts--"beverage prices in deposit states are higher than in neighboring non-deposit states." Environmental fanatics draw birdshot compared with the artillery reserved for the health nuts who have suggested that smoking might somehow be tied to cancer. As a pamphlet available to plant visitors insists, no one has ever been able to do more than show that smokers are more likely to die from lung cancer...
While some opponents of registration chide Rostker for covering for his boss in the White House, organizers such as David Landau '72, an American Civil Liberities Union attorney and the deputy director of CARD, have chosen to concentrate on what the government's figures mean, and on the prospects of halting the process before it leads to its logical end: a military draft...