Word: discreditment
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Ragulin, in turn, accused Neffinger of "distorting the facts to discredit the front runner...
Yesterday's indictment, the product of a two-year FBI investigation, prompted calls for the third-term councillor's resignation from political opponents who said Walsh was bringing "discredit" to the council...
...Councillor Walsh can serve the councilinstead of bringing more discredit to it whileunder investigation, would be to take the higherroad and resign," said CCA Executive DirectorDavid R. Leslie...
...simply to drop out of sight for days at a time -- leaving squabbling subordinates to govern. Opponents have raised questions about the President's reputed fondness for alcohol, accusing him of arriving drunk for a meeting last month in Uzbekistan. Yeltsin denounced the charge as "a big campaign to discredit the President, reform and authority." Still, he possesses one quality of leadership that sets him apart from Gorbachev: he is courageous and confident enough of his mandate as Russia's first democratically elected President to take the unpopular measures necessary to bring about radical change...
...that it required too much prior knowledge. To the poster's designer and Peninsula staffers, it was obvious that the poster's allusion to ugly stereotypes of Blacks (promoted by white heroes of the sexual revolution like the Jack Kerouac and the Paul Tillich) was an attempt to discredit those who have promulgated them. To others, it wasn't obvious, and that's Peninsula replaced the posters...