Word: disavowal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...friends agree: sexuality is no big deal. There's no reason to politicize it, to make a big deal of it. Enough progress has been made. A good number of gays (myself included) find themselves embarrassed by the camp and flame of gay culture and wish to disavow...
...displayed the flag because it's his country's current symbol. Ho, he says, was a "hero" who helped liberate his people. And America is a liberated country, with real freedoms. "I wanted to show the Vietnamese community that freedom means accepting an opposite opinion." He doesn't quite disavow a quest for fame. "Wanting to be famous is just human nature," he says. "But that's not the main point for my actions." Then he asks, "When is my story running...
Respectable antiabortion groups disavow violence, unlike Pro-Life Virginia, whose founder, the Rev. Donald Spitz, called Slepian's killer a hero carrying out his Christian duty. But they see their goals achieved through terror, such as the receipt, at four clinics last Friday, of letters supposedly containing anthrax, which sent 33 people to the hospital. What good is the right to an abortion if there's no way to get one? There are fewer clinics today (one in all of Buffalo, for example), and they are more widely dispersed. Far fewer doctors do the procedure, and even fewer are being...
...risen to the country?s No. 3 leadership position without a base among either old-guard purists or the liberal reformers wrestling for control of China's Communist party makes him an even more attractive candidate: Should he fail, it's easier for his superiors to -? so to speak -? disavow all knowledge of his actions...
...afoul of the Republican Congress because like Clinton, he refuses to disavow affirmative action as a weapon against racial inequality. Which makes Lee's appointment critical if Clinton is to put any teeth into his recent mini-wave of civil rights and race initiatives. The White House would ultimately prefer to win it the old-fashioned way when Congress returns. But Clinton may decide that the best victory is always the surest...