Word: disclaimer
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...junior end from Fullerton, Calif. said while fondling the jello, "I drove three days straight to get to school. As soon as I got here, after having spent the previous night in Toad's Bar in New Haven, they dragged me down for pictures, so I want to disclaim all responsibility for my picture in the football program. They refused to take...
...politic, a theater of ourselves, a legitimizing ceremony... We know that what we see is a 'media-event' and are smug in the knowledge. If Walter Cronkite takes it seriously, then we don't have to. His seriousness absolves us. There is a 'media-reality' for which we can disclaim responsibility, and a private reality, which is our watching of the magic show as if it had nothing to do with our lives...
...scores of people who had dealt with him: "One banker who did business for many years with him maintains that Hughes operates according to four principles. One: Never make a decision. Let someone else make it and then if it turns out to be the wrong one, you can disclaim it, and if it is the right one, you can abide by it. Two: Always postpone any deadline-for a week, a day, or even half an hour. Who knows, the situation may change in your favor if only you have the patience to wait. Three: Divide and conquer -both...
Beckwith said Wilson's attempts to disclaim his book's support of the status quo are "like making a hydrogen bomb, then saying you don't want it to be used...
...longest. But New Yorkers will now have to live in a more subdued style. "The city must shed its big-government psychology," says Dick Netzer, dean of New York University School of Public Administration and a member of Big Mac's board of directors. "It must disclaim its pretensions that it can resolve fundamental social problems or provide a tremendous range of worthy services. Officials should attempt to lower expectations-or at least shift them toward other levels of government that have some hope of satisfying these expectations." If the crisis really does teach the city to match its swollen...