Word: disown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...singing bush that knows only public domain songs and Martin's turning an attempt to escape from a dungeon into a parody of a Nautilus workout. Under John Landis' slaphappy direction, the movie does not always bounce that wildly off the wall. But Monty Python would not entirely disown it either...
Indian officials were quick to dispute the report. "How can Union Carbide disown its own subsidiary?" H.R. Bharadwaj, India's Minister of State for Law and Justice, asked in an interview with the New York Times. (The company holds a 50.9% stake in Union Carbide India Ltd.) "We expected the company would try to palm off the blame," Kamal Pareek, an engineer familiar with the plant, told the paper. "But Union Carbide cannot escape responsibility." Indeed, suits totaling more than $250 billion have been filed against the firm on behalf of the residents of Bhopal...
Treasury Secretary Donald Regan made that stunningly blunt remark last February in an effort to disown the 330-page annual report issued by the President's Council of Economic Advisers. The study had warned about the danger posed by the Administration's huge budget deficits. The White House last week went a giant step further, revealing that it may want to discard not only the council's embarrassing statements but the panel itself. The disclosure marks a historic nadir in the influence of the CEA, which was established by Congress in 1946 to be the President...
...Democrats would have to disown the quasi-isolationist and quasi-pacifist positions of many liberals (which Walter Mondale did only partly toward the end of the campaign). Similarly, Reagan would have to continue distancing himself from the far right. There is a lot of room for him to do that without in any real sense "going soft." He can argue with reason that he is now able to negotiate from strength. A tough but realistic position on arms control may well win bipartisan approval...
...first of these experimental readings was greeted warmly a year ago by feminists but drew catcalls from many scholars and admirers of the traditional language of the Bible. At a noisy N.C.C. board meeting last November, conservatives failed to force the council to disown the project. The new selection of 313 readings-covering 62 of the 150 Psalms and 42 other books-makes no concessions to the critics...