Word: discrediting
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...proliferation of commercial tax specialists, including many "refund mills" that pop up like crocuses in March, make a killing helping taxpayers cheat the Government, then fade away on April 16. Now the Internal Revenue Service has opened a nationwide campaign of investigations, arrests and prosecutions to root out and discredit these fly-by-nights. At the same time, the taxmen have launched a sweet-talking publicity campaign urging people who have minor tax problems to seek help in preparing their returns from IRS agents themselves-a campaign that outside taxmen can hardly believe anyone would take seriously. Cracks one specialist...
...over nationalization of their mines, and landlords, who had had their estates reduced by land reforms, staged a protest in the Las Bela district of Baluchistan. Government troops began moving into the area. Governor Bizenjo charged that the rebellion was actually inspired by the government as a pretext to discredit N.A.P. leadership before it could marshal opposition to Bhutto's proposed new constitution...
...recent weeks, several facts have turned up to discredit the show. Witnesses against Herbert have told him that they are ready to testify that they were forced to make their statements. Barry Lando, who did most of the "research," turns out to be a writer who asked to co-author Herbert's book, and when rejected, swore, before several witnesses, that he would "get even...
...Masters and Johnson findings, but with the addition of another hypothesis--one treated with much skepticism in medical circles--that the early embryo is, until the sixth week of development, essentially "female," A refutation of the Eve-from-Adam's-rib syndrome, this claim is apparently meant to discredit the psychoanalytic theory that the "aggressive," "masculine" woman is really longing after a lost, bisexual embryonic Eden. Those qualities, Sherfey would argue, are on the contrary innate in woman from the beginning, and it is from woman that male "masculinity" is derived...
...show, telling his ghastly tale. In a recent appearance on the Dick Cavett Show with Senator Barry Goldwater, Herbert dropped yet another bomb. He declared he had in his possession a whole series of memos (some signed by Generals Westmoreland and Sidle and Army Secretary Froehlke) that vowed to discredit and punish him. Goldwater, a member of the Armed Services Committee, promised to investigate. And so the war goes...