Word: discreditable
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...College Board held their annual meeting in Chicago last week and decided that they are still pretty pleased with their best-known product, the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). There were reaffirmations that the exam is an effective and fair means of predicting college performance and testimony designed to discredit critics who say that it puts some minorities and the underprivileged at a disadvantage. The experience was "reassuring," as one participant...
Sometimes litigants tend to ramble or drag in irrelevancies, like the mover who, although being sued for damaging some furniture, tried to discredit his opponent by reporting that she once accused him of stealing her underwear. Occasionally, however, somebody shows a gift for pointed lawyerly sarcasm. One defendant had smashed part of his neighbor's blaring rooftop alarm to silence it while the neighbor was away. The neighbor, seeking reimbursement, brought along the alarm and a pillow in a red satin case to show that the sound could have been stifled without damaging the system. "Your Honor," said...
...same trench with us, fighting the same enemies. It breaks your heart when you see how poor the very poor of Peru can be." Superior General Noonan notes that while "Marxism has very little influence" on Maryknoll life, it is a handy label that opponents have found useful to discredit missionaries who are "asking for change in the basic structures of society...
...N.C.I, says the material is structurally identical to that found in Mexico's Laetrile clinics. Says Robert Bradford of the Committee for Freedom of Choice in Cancer Therapy, a Laetrile lobbying group: "The whole thing, as far as we are concerned, is a put-up deal to discredit Laetrile." Replies Dr. Charles Moertel of the Mayo Clinic: "We like to be optimistic about the good sense of the public ... But we are not going to stop some people from chasing rainbows...
There were doubters from the beginning, particularly among the black journalists on the staff, many of whom now feel unfairly besmirched. Using Cooke to discredit other black journalists, says the Post's publisher, Donald Graham, is "utterly outrageous." Some of the Post's black journalists doubted that a dope pusher would "shoot up" a child or himself in front of a reporter, particularly a reporter without street smarts who sashayed through the ghetto in designer jeans...