Word: discreditment
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...official 'response' to our report wasreally not a response at all but a strategydesigned to win negative publicity about ourreport, to discredit our research project anddamage our reputations," they said in thestatement. "We find it is common for localofficials to criticize reports that raisesensitive racial issues...
Some officers report that the department has become split into camps, with one group backing Police Lt. Lawrence J. Murphy and another loyal to Rooney, head of the criminal investigations division. The two camps have accused one another of orchestrating damaging leaks to The Crimson to discredit Rooney or Murphy...
Carnesale, who was reported to have Green's jobunofficially in hand within 24 hours of theannouncement of the provost's departure, wastapped quickly. So quickly in fact that speed ofthe provost search served to discredit further thesluggish attempts to fill the two vicepresidencies...
Ramona's attorney, Richard Harrington, called on expert witnesses to discredit Isabella's and Rose's therapeutic techniques. Harvard bulimia expert Harrison Pope presented a paper stating that there is "no relationship" between childhood sexual abuse and the development of bulimia. Martin Orne, a University of Pennsylvania psychiatrist who pioneered research of hypnosis and sodium amytal, wrote in a court brief that the drug is "not useful in ascertaining 'truth' . . . The patient becomes sensitive and receptive to suggestions due to the context and to the comments of the interviewers." Dr. Lenore Terr, a prominent defender of recovered memories...
...whole thing, the First Lady insisted, was a Republican plot to discredit her. That easy defense will not provide much comfort for long. Several polls last week showed that most people agreed with Hillary that the Republicans were playing partisan games. But the public also didn't like what little it knew about Whitewater, and was not prepared to grant Hillary the automatic benefit of the doubt she seemed to expect. "She's still in the mode of saying, 'I didn't do anything wrong,' " said a White House source. "So why should she do a mea culpa?" Said...