Word: discreditment
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...having shot their expensive wad on a marginally effective bunch of missiles at the expense of some future sound and necessary system. If there is a lesson to be learned from Vietnam, it is that when government take the right stand in the wrong place they can only ultimately discredit a valid position...
...first time in my life I'll get full disclosure," he said in a telephone interview. "They've conspired with a known har to discredit me, and they have facts -- the facts that prove the lady wasn't raped...
Jimmy's quest for truth and justice takes him all the way to City Hall, where he is sent packing by tough-guy Mayor Tyler (Robert Culp). Fed up with the insensitivity of yet another elitist bureaucrat, Jimmy embarks on a one-man campaign to discredit Tyler and his administration. Trouble from Jim is the last thing that the Mayor and his tuxedo clad cronies need, already troubled by the departure of a top mayorial aide, accompanied by the city's bank accounts...
...Popieluszko and the Roman Catholic Church. Said he: "Father Popieluszko was filled with hatred for socialist Poland. . . . They (the defendants) were extremists just as he (Popieluszko) was an extremist. Thus two extremist attitudes met." Pietrasinski added with subtle cynicism that the aim of the four secret policemen was to discredit Poland's Communist regime. Said he: "They used military uniforms and the financial reserves of the Interior Ministry as if to confirm that terror is being used in Poland. It is known that the kidnaping caused a great resonance. The defendants' act carries all the traits of a political provocation...
Such is the attitude that colors the predominant campus view about ROTC--scornful condescension--and the more absurd minority position that it is incumbent upon Harvard to "oppose" the military establishment. It is to Harvard's discredit that as an institution it effectively subscribes to this minority notion in maintaining its policy, a result of the 1969 tumult, of nor permitting ROTC on campus. Beyond the benefits the program offers students seeking a way to pay for college and serve their country, what does this policy imply about our adherence to the liberal ideal of tolerating a diversity of political...