Word: contradict
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...widely assumed that the conclusions will paint a grim portrait of the Israeli government. Shamir's associates are bracing for a verdict that will be a broad, stinging indictment of the recent tendency to delegate too much - authority. But they do not anticipate any findings that will contradict Shamir's repeated contention that the Pollard affair was a "rogue" operation. "I don't think it will point a finger at the political leadership, but it will point to a very disorganized system that permitted this operation in the first place," says a Shamir aide. "It will point to a lack...
...piece, "It's a Strange World" (February 17), John Rosenthal complains about the lack of courses at Harvard geared towards Australia and laments the fact that Harvard offers instruction in "strange" and "exotic" languages. We must contradict him. First, there are many courses in English, which is the official language of Australia, and in which language Australia has produced some outstanding writers...
Laurance D. Myers died September 17 from cardiac arrest while receiving emergency treatment for severe wounds to his chest, abdomen and wrists. The County Prosecutor later determined that there was no evidence to contradict the hypothesis of suicide...
...arrests also seemed to contradict the notion that charges of malfeasance on Wall Street were aimed mostly at brash young M.B.A.s with an eye for a quick buck. Wigton had been a member of the Kidder, Peabody firm for more than 30 years. He was elected last year to the board of governors of the National Association of Securities Dealers, the respected regulating arm of the over-the-counter stock industry. Freeman was a 22-year Goldman, Sachs veteran. Only the youthful Tabor could be described in fast-track terms. A Rhodes scholar, he held down...
...million years. They represent, we imagine, the first order of creation, and they are vividly marked with God's eccentric genius of design: life poured into pure forms, life unmitigated by complexities of consciousness, language, ethics, treachery, revulsion, reason, religion, premeditation or free will. A wild animal does not contradict its own nature, does not thwart itself, as man endlessly does. A wild animal never plays for the other side. The wild animals are a holiday from deliberation. They are sheer life. To behold a bright being that lives without thought is, to the complex, cross-grained human mind, profoundly...