Word: discreditation
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...firing seven travel office workers. House Rep. William Clinger said he'd send Hillary Clinton written questions asking why the FBI and IRS were enlisted to investigate the employees. Republicans suspect the Clintons wanted to give the travel office contract to Arkansas friends and mounted a devious effort to discredit the seven longtime White House employees...
...here, recognizably and delightfully, are two weird dudes: a political figure stripped of his moral authority and taking it with a lack of good grace, and a hero who is deeply delusional. Woody turns weak and spiteful; he contemplates criminal mischief to discredit his rival. ("I had power,/ I was respected,/ But not anymore," spits out Randy Newman in one of the film's three very grownup sing-along tunes.) And Buzz is, in the blithest, most genial way, nuts. If you've never in your life seen a toy have a nervous breakdown, Buzz's will make it worth...
...been too "soft" toward dissidents like Wei. Others say that Beijing has decided that it could crack down on dissidents and get away with it, in spite of anticipated protests and diplomatic pressure from Western countries like the U.S. Still others view it as Beijing's attempt to publicly discredit Wei by depicting him, to the local and international audience, as a despicable criminal, to counter his image of a pro-democracy crusader and prisoner of conscience. Despite the ebbing of public support for China's pro-democracy movement overseas, there has been a constant clamor, especially in the West...
Marriah Star's editorial ("A Lack of Common Ground," Oct. 25) is so replete with contradictions and half-truths that we are almost reluctant to dignify it with a response. As if equating the Harvard Black Students Association with the Ku Klux Klan were not enough to completely discredit his argument, Star goes on to fill his lengthy article with multiple inane, illogical assertions. He begins by stating that we, as Americans, are "stuck in the tradition...of judging other people by their color." He later contends in his conclusion that "racism merely pervades the outer fringes of American society...
...floor fight. Had Packwood battled on, he might have become the first Senator since the Civil War--and the 16th in history--to be expelled. The committee's damning recommendation left little doubt of the eventual outcome of such a fight. In unflinching language, it lambasted Packwood for bringing "discredit and dishonor upon the Senate" and detailed three violations of laws and rules: sexual misconduct that involved at least 18 unwelcome advances toward women between 1969 and 1990; improper use of his political office for financial gain; and, most damagingly, obstruction of the panel's inquiry by tampering with portions...