Word: discreditment
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...transcripts. But adding more numbers is not the answer. What if a class of 30 happens to enroll 20 students who work very hard and turn out very strong work? Transcript readers who see that two-thirds of those in the class received As would then wrongly discredit those grades. The only good that might come out of this proposal is that Harvard might be grossly embarrassed in printing three-figure enrollment figures on hundreds of transcripts; this could do more for class size than 10 years of U.S. News and World Report rankings...
...those who disapproved of the frolicsome Clinton culture, and was pleased by the 1996 publication of former FBI agent Gary Aldrich's book in which he alleged that sex toys dangled from the White House Christmas tree. Tripp was annoyed by the efforts of the President's men to discredit the author...
About a year later, former FBI man Gary Aldrich published his incendiary tale of shenanigans inside Clinton's White House. It was delicious reading for Tripp, who became angry when the White House tried to discredit Aldrich, whom she knew from the Bush years. It gave Tripp the idea for her own kiss-and-tell. Behind Closed Doors, it was to be called, and it was to cause an earthquake. She chose as her literary agent Lucianne Goldberg, known in the '90s for controversial clients like Mark Fuhrman (of O.J. Simpson fame) and in the '70s for being a G.O.P...
...This incident is very unpleasant," said Sergei A. Gorbunov, spokesman for the Russian Space Agency. "Our competitors from the United States, China and France will no doubt use this opportunity to discredit our space program and lure away our customers." The wandering satellite is not considered a threat to re-enter the atmosphere and cause any damage on Earth--that is, beyond the black eye it has already given the Russians...
Adults in general merit some discredit, for always asking us what we wanted to be when we grow up--a terrible question, and if our entire generation would vow never to ask this question to anyone under 20 once we grow up, a new generation might someday be capable of self-satisfaction again. But the truth is that no one is really responsible for our obsession with "success"--tangible success, that is, the kind that comes with either a big public name or a large salary--other than ourselves...