Word: disavower
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...special assistants which purported to show that high test scores for Blacks and women tend to overpredict their academic performance while in college. The Klitgaard report caused much controversy, for many Blacks argued that the study's premises threatened their right to be at Harvard. Bok refused to disavow the report, instead planing the blame for the upset on the study's disclosure...
...Faculty Council last week decided not to disavow a Harvard official's public suggestion that society discourage homosexuality and refused to investigate the official and the research center he directs...
...approaching the Center? Might not a researcher wonder if "negative social pressures" would include denying a proposal to study lesbian mothers or alcoholism among gay men? We wonder. We think the threat to academic freedom is made all the more chilling by the failure of responsible administrators to publicly disavow Pattullo's position...
...easily purchased; any Israeli (and Anwar el-Sadat) will testify to that If the Arab regimes are as deeply aggrieved by the plight of the Palestinians as they claim-and truly view the problem as transcending their own nationalist and other considerations--then it is time to disavow impossibilism...
...Nicaraguan support for insurgencies in neighboring countries." The problem lies with the ambiguity of the word "support." Clearly the Sandinistas will not agree to curtailing their moral support for any leftist group in Central America. And it hardly seems likely that the leaders in Managua will publicly disavow material support for insurgencies--support they have consistently claimed does not exist. In the world of international relations, where every word is carefully weighed this minor rhetorical point could undermine the U.S. plan...