Word: discreditment
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...Soviet Union. Said Prime Minister Shimon Peres: ''It's not a simple question, and there are no simple answers.'' Even Waldheim's defenders seemed less than enthusiastic. In Moscow, the Soviet news agency TASS issued a commentary accusing the U.S. and ''Zionists'' of using a ''hostile campaign'' to discredit Waldheim. The article, however, seemed directed more at smearing the U.S. and Israel than at lending support to Waldheim. The dispatch was not picked up by Moscow newspapers. Meanwhile, the President-elect set about the difficult task of trying to heal campaign wounds before his inauguration on July...
Committee chairman John Conyers says McClellan's book "suggests that senior White House officials may have obstructed justice and engaged in a cover-up" in the outing of Valerie Plame, the CIA employee whose identity was revealed as part of a White House effort to discredit her husband. What Conyers "suggests," however, may also be misleading. The book adds some new details about Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney's involvement in the Plame outing, but there's nothing there to build a case on. For his part, McClellan says he doesn't have much more to offer...
...license plate. While that report recommended censuring three of the battalion's officers for failing to keep track of the plate, it did not offer an explanation of how the plate became attached to the car used to snatch Burgos-other than to suggest that someone seeking to discredit the military may have snuck into the base and stolen it. In July, a senior government prosecutor announced that he wanted to interview six military officers in connection with Burgos' abduction. He was immediately removed from the case. Senior military officers have offered their own explanation for the abduction...
...thing about Bush’s celebrated political Teflon is that it rarely involves the candidate alone; rather, a staff of loyal vassals works—and works hard—to subtly detect, derail and discredit all threats, like dogs wandering a minefield...
...make of its season—it had accomplished its goal of a repeat title, but couldn’t quite call the season a success. “Too many games, we beat ourselves,” Rollins said. “We shouldn’t discredit the championship, but we have higher goals.”The season’s heartbreaking finish overshadowed a year full of high points and success stories. Budischak, hampered by injuries in her first three years, won a starting spot with tenacious rebounding. Rollins finally reached her potential...