Word: discrediting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Perot loyalists have already filed an FEC complaint, claiming fraud and hoping to discredit Buchanan, get the dough, and save the party by somehow rallying 5 percent of the vote with it. Buchanan, however, seems to have the inside track. Good thing Hagelin, a nuclear physicist who advocates transcendental meditation, has a fall-back...
Soon, Al Gore will go to work spinning his own plausibility in Los Angeles. The Democrats will set up a counter-universe, a counter-America, their own vision of... what? Inclusion? Compassion? Coming second in this exercise, they will have to discredit - to mock - the Republicans' convention. That may give to the Democratic proceedings a derisive and holier-than-thou tone, an atmosphere that may prove unfortunate: a nastiness inside the convention hall may be amplified by protesters' vociferous disturbances outside. The admixture of Streisand/Beatty-style Hollywood chic should contribute an insufferable note. And of course, the Clintons will be there...
...could the newfound commercial attention hurt the cause? "Sometimes, I wish the word dosha had never been discovered in the West," says Shafi Saxena, who founded Better Botanicals with her husband in 1995. The company's herbal products are based on Ayurvedic tenets. "I'm afraid it will discredit the system. Look at aromatherapy: everything that smelled good was aromatherapeutic." So while Ayurveda has lasted millennums in India, it remains to be seen how long it can withstand the American attention span...
...Older voters have proven they'll do just that, and Gore will be focusing on them as he tries to discredit Bush's plan. The vice president's first stop on Wednesday was a speech to 10,000 senior citizens at an American Association of Retired Persons convention. There and over the next weeks, expect Gore to use the word "risky" very liberally and hint broadly that Bush's plan isn't ready for prime time and neither is Bush. Gore may need to emerge from the shadow of Bill Clinton (who offered Monday that neither plan was as good...
...newer model.) Meanwhile, the city started an investigation against Gatto's senior detective, Chris Clinch, for allegedly mishandling a police parking placard and placing household garbage in a DEP Dumpster. A judge later exonerated Officer Clinch in a decision suggesting that a city official may have fabricated testimony to discredit Gatto...