Word: condemn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although department officials and graduate students on the department's sexual harassment committee mutually condemn sexual misconduct, the students charge--with some validity--that the department has refused to protect them--or to let them protect themselves--against the fallout of sexual harassment cases...
...percent of their total business in South Africa. Any profits that are repatriated from from that country and find their way into company dividends make up only a tiny portion of the funds we receive from our equity holdings. Those who feel that even this amount is enough to condemn these stocks have difficult questions to answer. Do they object to students who take jobs with IBM, Ford, Exxon and other companies who do business in South Africa and take money from these firms in the form of wages rather than dividends? Do they object to buying Coca Cola, Kellogg...
...most hypocritical part of the Administration's move and other "pro-family" legislation like the Hatch Amendment--which would ban abortion--is that the very same people who condemn abortion have come out against sex education in schools, contraceptive counseling, and other methods that would cut down on the number of unwanted pregnancies. While teenagers have recently been getting pregnant more than any other age group--leading concerned groups to call for greater availability of contraceptives and counseling to end to the pitiful phenomena of "children having children"--Phyllis Schlafly and other speakers for the New Right are preaching prayer...
...runaway Nazi might be living in penury in a ramshackle hut. Thinking of that sorry plight, and of the jottings about children and poodles that constituted the lion's share of the released documents, Rolf said he deplored the methods and madness of the doctor, but could not condemn him. "I don't support my father," he said, "but I don't want to betray him either...
...opposed the alliance's decision to deploy cruise and Pershing II missiles in Western Europe, while barely mentioning a deeply threatening Soviet buildup of SS-20 missiles on the Continent. At times, Papandreou's anti-Western posturing reached surprising extremes. In 1983, for example, his government refused to condemn the shooting down of a Korean airliner by Soviet jet fighters, and Papandreou briefly championed the Soviet claim that the aircraft was a U.S. spy plane. Last March he irritated his European Community partners by threatening to veto the entry into the group of Spain and Portugal, an event scheduled...