Word: dispel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...group of Black students at Eliot House is trying to "dispel myths" that Eliot presents an "uncomfortable" atmosphere for Blacks, in an effort to attract minorities before freshmen submit their housing preferences a week from Friday...
JUST WHEN minorities thought they'd heard the worst from this Administration, the President hit them again last week. Given yet another opportunity to dispel minority fears of government insensitivity and indifference, the President hedged--succeeding only in intensifying those impressions. Appearing before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee. Attorney General William French Smith pledged the Administration's support for extension of the Voting Right Act of 1965; at the same time, he demanded certain revisions that would effectively gut the law. Welcome back--the same people who brought you tax exemptions to racially discriminatory schools, now present you with a fresh...
...documentation proved the score was five-to-one in my favor. I was right on five of them," the President told the nation. Never mind that his own press office refused to release that "documentation"; the President's own advisors acknowledged they had scheduled the conference so Reagan could dispel doubts about his credibility, not clear up specific issues...
WHEN LEADERS of the medical profession are increasingly worried about maintaining their public reputation for competence--and are scurrying to dispel the image of some physician as drug addicts--it is silly to waste time investigating a physician whose case has already been decided. Obviously it should never revoke in a knee-jerk reaction to a felony conviction; no punishment should be that automatic. But if, for example, the law required court clerks to send the review board a transcript of the trial along with the notice of physician's conviction--and if the board were willing to simply review...
...into the defensive chumminess that is one of the hallmarks of provincial art-the trade unionism of the In joke. Such longueurs threaten but do not overwhelm the effort to improve coast-to-coast cultural communication. This show is well worth seeing; and it will do a lot to dispel the faint condescension which, in some quarters, still clings to mere clay. -By Robert Hughes