Word: disavows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unemployment benefits tax idea was initially floated to the media by anonymous Administration officials, but after the suggestion was greeted with a firestorm of criticism, the White House began to scramble pathetically to disavow the proposal. President counselor Edwin Meese's disclaimer was typical: The tax plan, he said, should not be taken seriously--for although it has been sitting on the President's desk, the Chief Executive had yet to peruse it. The very surprise that Presidential aides showed at the proposal's negative public reception suggested profound lack of understanding the nation's political concerns today...
...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...