Word: discreditment
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...savage tragedy for a distinguished family that has taken a lead in trying to improve the quality of life on the West Bank. In the wake of al Masri's assassination, three other moderate mayoral candidates all announced that they were unavailable because they did not want to "discredit the leadership of the P.L.O." The likelihood is that they simply feared for their lives...
Nothing seemed immune to criticism during Gorbachev's speech. He declared, "The party will continue to get rid of all those who discredit the name of Communist." Gorbachev boasted that his self-proclaimed war against alcoholism is getting results. "Drunkenness has been elbowed out of factories, and there is less of it in public places," he said. Later, at an unusual news conference, Politburo Member Geidar Aliyev said that half of the state's retail trade revenue, worth about $446 billion a year, had come from alcohol. He claimed that reduced liquor sales had slashed that income by $66 billion...
...case, asking life sentences for two and a 24-year term for the third. The Soviet Union, for its part, was jubilant over the call for the Bulgarians' acquittal. Radio Moscow said the recommendation proved that the conspiracy charges were fabricated by the CIA and its Western allies "to discredit Bulgaria and other socialist countries...
...Black intellectuals would stop worrying about what Jews think, which is only what Cruse called for two decades ago, then they could become catalysts for change. As it stands, Black intellectuals--if the colloquium can be taken as an example--discredit themselves by exhalting critical scrutiny while they sweep an intellectually turbulent problem out of view...
About an hour before the Westland board was to recommend acceptance of the Sikorsky bid to its shareholders, excerpts from the Mayhew letter were leaked to the press. Thatcher's critics have charged that this was done to discredit Heseltine in his role as champion of the Europeans...