Word: disavower
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...while most students and faculty are quick to disavow terrorism, they also charge that the government is overreacting-particularly against students-in an atmosphere of hysteria. "Oh God!" cried one Berlin student after learning of the Schleyer kidnaping. "One step closer to a fascist state." When a lampoon appeared at Gottingen University with a "non-obit" for Schleyer, tastelessly referring to his limited options of a "shabby life" or a "shabby death," police staged a three-hour search of the student-government building, its printing offices and two apartments. They seized 33 copies of the pamphlet, and the university rector...
...make a studied effort to deflate pretentiousness. Says Powell: "During the campaign, every time we got cocky, we got kicked on our ass." They also disavow any ravenous hunger for political prestige. "The last thing I want to do," says Jordan, "is spend the second half of my life reminiscing about my days of power in Washington...
RICHARD SCHWEIKER, 50, Reagan's implausible liberal choice as a running mate, helped the Californian not at all and damaged his own great ambitions to become an important party leader or, one day, President. By eagerly embracing almost all of Reagan's positions and promising to disavow the previous pro-labor stands that had made him a darling of the AFL-CIO, Schweiker came across as an opportunist. He spent most of his time in the campaign vainly trying to explain his complete flipflop...
Parrish claims, however, that Reems is liable for conspiracy because he knew the nature of the film before he acted in it and because, under federal law, "you remain a member of a conspiracy until you do an affirmative act to disavow or defeat the conspiracy...
...materials prices have failed to keep pace with the prices of manufactured goods over the past 25 years. The implication-unpalatable to the U.N.'s Third World majority-is that the industrial nations have not been ripping off the poor countries to the extent often charged. U.N. statisticians disavow the conclusion reached by the ten-member study group, which was headed by Harvard Professor Hendrik Houthakker, a former member of President Nixon's Council of Economic Advisers...