Word: discreditment
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...urge any specific steps for bringing the Baltic states into line, but its ominous tone came as a shock to Soviet liberals. With Mikhail Gorbachev out of Moscow on vacation last week, many wondered if the virulent anti-Baltic onslaught was yet another maneuver by conservative forces to discredit the Soviet leader's political reforms...
Instead of carefully considering Malcom's charges--and the possibility that they might have certain truth--the Times took up a crusade to discredit her and her work completely. The response from the highest echelon of American Journalism was to scoff at the charges as so ridiculous that they did not deserve a substantive answer. How unfortunate...
...authors are frank about their methodology. They are also quick to insert disclaimers that their expose of New Vrindaban is meant to discredit the whole Hare Krishna movement. But it does, mainly because their approach focuses almost exclusively on bizarre and scandalous events. Following the 1977 death of founder A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, each of his closest disciples split off to establish his own turf. For example, Hans Kary of Hoboken, N.J., headed for Berkeley, where, as Hansadutta, he became a Krishna guru who financed rock-'n'-roll albums and amassed an arsenal of firearms...
...investing, to recommend to the CCSR that Harvard divest from these companies. Ironically, the ACSR also once recommended that Harvard divest from its holdings in South African-related companies. This was advice which the University, which retains about $200 million in such stock, has largely disregarded-much to its discredit...
From his exile in Santo Domingo, Manigat appeared to discredit the notion of a conspiracy between Namphy and Paul. He claimed that Namphy had moved against Paul because the colonel had arrested ten soldiers loyal to Namphy, allegedly for their involvement in terrorist activities. Late last week Paul's future remained uncertain. A Haitian businessman with ties to the military said that Paul was making inquiries about countries he might escape to that have no extradition treaties with the U.S. or Haiti...