Word: contradicting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...answerer, not a cashier, means lots of problems with hard answers or questions that should never have arisen; in other words, explaining, patching and apoligizing for mistakes in buying and organizing. My remark to your reporter indicated that that did not happen, and lines and crowded aisles do not contradict my statement. The managers and buyers should be praised for their work...
...addition to purely financial negotiations, Barstow says that his office makes sure the terms of any research contract do not contradict the University's policies...
Even neglecting the larger issue, the higher court must dismiss the prosecution's case because it rests on a confusing and contradictory welter of evidence. As he did during the trial, Assistant District Attorney Newman A. Flanagan drowned his weak appeal in emotionalism. Flanagan could not contradict the overwhelming evidence that the fetus never lived outside of the mother's womb--only this would have legally constituted birth, according to the trial judge, James P. Maguire--but he could shout emotionally that "this is the case of a child that was born." Even given his contention that a child...
...weekness of his case and the motive for the firing. In his letter to Rosenthal, Morrissey wrote that he had "reservations" about the quality of Rosenthal's teaching and about his ability "to make a long term positive contribution" to the college. Not only did these reservations contradict countless faculty and student evaluations describing Rosenthal with such phrases as "a dedicated teacher who spends a lot of time with students," but they also fail to fulfill the requirements of a clause in the college's contract with the Faculty Federation. That clause requires the president to cite specific, substantive reasons...
Kissinger's defense of his policies partly diverted attention from some bruising lumps he took earlier. Two sworn statements by former President Nixon released last week seemed to contradict sworn statements by Kissinger. The first Nixon contradiction came in a rambling, seven-hour deposition given at San Clemente last January in response to a $3 million suit filed by Morton H. Halperin, a former National Security Council staff member whose telephone was tapped for 21 months by the FBI beginning in May 1969. Nixon and Kissinger are among eight officials of the Nixon Administration being sued by Halperin. Nixon...