Word: discreditable
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...hailed the CNN footage as much needed publicity for a long-overlooked custom that is common in Egypt and other parts of Africa, though it has no roots in the Koran. But the Egyptian press denounced the tape as a betrayal of Cairo's gracious hospitality and tried to discredit the piece by charging that CNN had "staged" the circumcision and paid the participants. Actually, CNN paid $300 to a free-lance producer to find and make arrangements with the Hamza family, who in turn paid $44 to one of her aunts for serving as a go-between. "This wasn...
Neither Baker nor Cheney believes returning Aristide to power in Haiti will encourage other Caribbean countries to become more democratic. In fact, both discredit signal sending as particularly important in foreign affairs, except as a "negative incentive," says Baker. "I never thought our resolve in getting Saddam out of Kuwait would deter the Serbs in Bosnia or the coup that overthrew Aristide," explains Cheney in an analysis Baker shares. "It doesn't work that way unless, like Clinton, you talk loudly about using force and then fail to follow through. When you project weakness consistently you do embolden bad guys...
...fight made clear how ferociously the defense will attempt to discredit the DNA evidence once the trial gets under way. Last Monday the prosecution disclosed that two different DNA tests had turned up a genetic match between Simpson's blood and the trail of blood droplets leading from the site where Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman were slain. This sent defense lawyers scrambling to demonstrate that various samples had been mishandled and might be contaminated. Under questioning, Andrea Mazzola, a novice police lab technician, said that her work in Simpson's driveway had been unsupervised by a senior technician...
Judge Lance Ito barred the defense from getting its hands on personnel records of two Los Angeles detectives involved in the O.J. Simpson case. The decision by Ito was a blow to the defense, which had hoped to discredit detective Mark Fuhrman as racially prejudiced and dishonest. Fuhrman testified that he found a glove, which matches one found at the scene of the murders, at the Simpson estate. The defense team has implied that Fuhrman planted the glove to frame the former football star. Ito also delayed the O.J. Simpson trial by one week, to Sept...
...official 'response' to our report wasreally not a response at all but a strategydesigned to win negative publicity about ourreport, to discredit our research project anddamage our reputations," they said in thestatement. "We find it is common for localofficials to criticize reports that raisesensitive racial issues...