Word: discreditation
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...America wants another career politician, I’m not the guy. We’ve had a history of career politicians. I don’t want to discredit anybody’s service, but I think sometimes people who have a mix of experiences bring some fresh ideas. I’ve been very proud not only of what I’ve been able to do in public service, but also what I was able to do in my business experience...And that variety of experience, if I decide to go forward...
...rest of the world, I’m now being taught by flag-burning, Communist draft-dodgers. Pundits have co-opted Summers’ resignation to discredit one of the world's best undergraduate educations...
...complicity. Baurzhan Mukhamedzhanov, the Interior Minister, declared that the real culprit was Yerzhan Utembayev, the Senate's chief of staff, who allegedly confessed to putting out a $60,000 contract on Sarsenbayev "for reasons of personal enmity." Human-rights campaigner Panfilov regards that version as an attempt to discredit Abykayev, who is Utem-bayev's boss. But late last week, the President spoke up for his old ally Abykayev. In an effort to cool tensions, Nazarbayev addressed the nation, promising that justice would be done, and calling for order. That did little to convince citizens he would make good...
...image too aggressively, because they risk repudiating who and what they really are. "BP is spending billions to change its image, saying 'we are not a petroleum company.' They've lost belief in what they are doing and are trying to be something else. But in doing so they discredit the foundation on which they were built," Furedi says. "They are building a destabilizing dynamic that's going to blow up in their face...
...COINTELPRO, proposal, first, to breed confusion and resentment on King's poverty tours by spreading false information about whether he or surrogates would appear at scheduled rallies, and second, to undermine his image by distributing leaflets skewering King as a fancy dresser who deserted his people. The combination would "discredit King and his aides with poor Negroes who he is seeking support from," argued Mississippi, but the bureau would not have time to act on the plan...