Word: contradict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps this analysis of White House maneuvering explains an extraordinary series of disclosures scored recently by The Wall Street Journal and especial by Joel Brinkley of The New York Times. Secret and important intelligence reports trickle out with suspicious regularity Unnamed sources contradict even discredit, the Administration line. Are White House aides, along with career CIA and State Department officials worried about their own futures trying to sidestep the political morass of Central America by preventing Reagan from being Reagan in Nicaragua...
...said that Harvard does not encourage through its investments any activity that Kennedy's proposal would restrict. Therefore, Bok added, his personal endorsement of Kennedy's bill does not contradict University policy...
...marriage itself." Jesuit Richard McCormick of Georgetown University claims "a lot of bishops believe you can't find the arguments to sustain papal teaching." Father Charles Curran of the Catholic University of America doubts that the ban is based on good reasoning, concluding that "faith and reason cannot contradict one another." Curran and McCormick think that the Pope may crack down on dissident priests and make the birth control issue a litmus test in appointments of bishops and seminary professors...
...rank works relentlessly. He refuses to take the easy way out by supporting his father at home and prefers to contradict his naturally affectionate nature and become a drifting loner. He defies and hides his familial devotion and sacrifices almost all human comforts for his work. Yet he is still tied to his family by his ambition to restore it to its former glory. He is bound to support and maintain his father and brothers by a deep sense of loyalty and pride, but he shuns any personal contacts...
...suprised and puzzled by the finding," said Branch, himself a marathon runner. "My own values contradict these results," he added...