Word: contradiction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...article appeared to contradict earlier statements by Dukakis in Iowa last weekend when he said campaign manager John Sasso would have no further role in his campaign. Dukakis was never asked specifically about Tully, but he made it clear that the two would have no further role in the campaign...
...more we need shared fairy tales, Greek myths, historical images, and so on." The reason for this seeming paradox is that "if we do not achieve a literate society, the technicians, with their arcane specialties, will not be able to communicate with us nor we with them. That would contradict the basic principles of democracy and must not be allowed to happen...
North said nothing to contradict earlier accounts of McFarlane's involvement in arranging the Hawks shipment...
McFarlane testified that he was unaware of the diversion until North told him about it during their trip home from Iran in May 1986. North did not contradict this...
...million in damages -- but also to many other Americans. As a matter of law, however, they are wrong. The 1982 verdict against the Post was overturned, first by the trial judge and again on appeal. Libel law is often what scholars call counterintuitive: its tenets sometimes appear to contradict common sense and even common courtesy. The clash between legal principle and public perception may explain why libel verdicts so persistently get reversed and why legal scholars and a growing number of libel plaintiffs are concluding that going to court usually amounts to a frustrating waste of time...