Word: discredit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...subterranean assault on another G.O.P. budget proposal. Treasury Secretary-to- be Robert Rubin was talking privately to Wall Street economists about the dangers of the Republican plan to change the government's accounting rules to make tax cuts appear less expensive. A negative reaction by the financial markets could discredit many of the Republican taxing and spending plans. Typically, Gingrich's planned response to Rubin was a counterassault, inviting 25 top Wall Street economists to Washington to suggest they were "being stupid" to buy the White House line...
...Crimson, criticized for attempting to discredit the BSA and cited repeatedly for freeing speech which questions Black people's abilities, wants to limit the speech of those who would stand up for Black people? And then have the audacity to attempt to handpick Black students' leadership, under the guise of being concerned about "the BSA's hard-earned credibility...
...Louisville case, the first of 160 civil suits against Lilly to make it to trial. After the shooting, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, a group founded by the Church of Scientology, tried to capitalize on the Louisville incident as part of an all- out campaign to discredit Prozac and psychiatry...
...Deal coalition that had kept Democrats in power for most of the past six decades collapsed and will have to be replaced. Meanwhile, Republicans have achieved a pregnant moment when their 25-year realignment of party power seems on the verge of success. They have managed to discredit the Democrats, root and branch. What they have not done, however -- and must accomplish over the next two years -- is convince voters that Republicans in Congress can move beyond heckling and obstructing to meet the public demand for leaner, more effective, more accountable government; that they can emulate pragmatic Republican success stories...
...unclear how class size figures in to the picture. While noting a small class size can help discredit the statistical reliability of the mean, a large class does not necessarily imply...