Word: discreditment
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...neat parable, but it never happened. The lurch to the left is like the "stab in the back" invented by right-wing Germans after World War I: an instant myth designed to discredit all one's political enemies in one fell swoop. Ask anyone who hangs out in left field -- columnists for the Nation, for instance, or resident thinkers at Washington's Institute for Policy Studies -- and they'll tell you there hasn't been any lurching in their direction. A few tentative little steps perhaps -- abolition of the "gag rule" on abortions, the signing of the "motor voter...
...with committed FAS, administrators, masters and students to solve racial conflicts and to encourage our ethnically diverse student population to live and work together harmoniously. We will continue this good work with the hope that the Crimson editors will not use innuendo and biased journalism in an attempt to discredit minority students and staff or to hurt and impede our efforts to improve race relations and serve the needs of minority students at Harvard. Rather, we appeal to the present and future Crimson writers to join us, and to seek the valuable input and sound advice of the majority...
...During the past year, while studying journalism at the University of Maryland, he had written several articles for a student publication, the Retriever, that, he says, "left no doubt that I was gay." Scott was afraid that gay activists "would 'out' me to the media" in a bid to discredit his father's testimony. Pre-emptively, Scott phoned his stepmother, Marine Major Joanne Schilling, and asked her to inform his father about his homosexuality...
Many gay leaders rushed to discredit the 1% figure, pointing out that people are reluctant to discuss their most intimate sexual nature with a clipboard- bearing stranger, even in surveys like this one where the interviews were conducted face to face in the subject's home and with a guarantee of confidentiality. "People have good reason not to be honest about their homosexual behavior," says Frances Kunreuther, the executive director of the Hetrick-Martin Institute, the nation's largest social service agency for gay youth, "especially in a country where same-sex relations are illegal in 24 states...
Nothing that security guards and no police officers were involved. Johnson denied the charges, but then went one step further. He accused the debate coach of a "set-up" to discredit the police, but refused to explain further...