Word: disclaiming
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...remembered for inspiring one of the most refreshing bursts of candor in television history. When the pilot episode for the Ted Danson-Mary Steenburgen comedy was finished, the people involved could scarcely contain their lack of enthusiasm. Danson, at a press conference, said he didn't want to "disclaim the baby" but promised the show would improve. Steenburgen likened the series to making a batch of pancakes: sometimes "you throw out the first." A few weeks later CBS tossed out all four episodes completed up to that point, fired the producer and delayed the premiere for a month...
Cassovia head coach Ivan "The Terrible" Vostko--the Pat Riley of Slovakia--expressed disclaim for the American style of play...
...Constitution is to be taken seriously,"Chester said. "You cannot disclaim...
...them. Nonetheless, according to Zheng, amid the anarchy of the times cannibalism apparently persisted in Guangxi. "I believe Zheng's story," says Perry Link, a professor of Chinese at Princeton. "He's a writer of integrity, and the rich detail has the ring of authenticity." Chinese officials now disclaim any knowledge of the practice. Said a Public Security official in Beijing: "I've never heard of this...
...plaintiffs argue that Yeltsin overstepped his authority when he dissolved the party by decree and opened the way for a dictatorship in democratic disguise, where no political group will be safe from a presidential ban. They disclaim any responsibility for crimes committed by party leaders in the past and want to limit the scope of the hearings to the period after they renounced their monopoly on power in 1990. They also hope to shift the focus by dwelling on the party's achievements in defeating Nazi Germany and building the Soviet Union into a superpower...