Word: dispell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last week he persuaded Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt, a close personal friend, to be the honorary chairman of the Republican National Committee. Others are also looking ahead. Kennedy used his easy race in Massachusetts to flood New England with a series of five-minute ads designed to dispel questions about his personality and character. Senator John Glenn of Ohio will get a boost in building a campaign organization by the election of his friend Celeste as Governor. Former Vice President Walter Mondale spent part of Tuesday evening phoning winners to of fer his congratulations. And Republican Senator Dole, in election...
...report also found that publicity of sexual harassment as an issue is not now adequate. It urges the University to present the community with evidence that it takes action against offenders, and to release aggregate annual figures on the number of complaints handled and their disposition, in order to dispel unfounded rumors about numbers of cases...
...bloody Bendix-Marietta saga should dispel any sanguine impressions. The two giants slugged it out toe-to-toe for 31 days, and the well-publicized battle, "at various times...threatened to destroy Marietta or Bendix, or both," according to The New York Times. At one point in late August, it looked like each would succeed only in buying each other's shares, a kind of corporate analog to the mutually fatal duel of Hamlet and Laertes. The two companies--and a pair of other preying conglomerates--spent millions of dollars on legal and financial fees, while diverting the financial community...
...House behind the effort. "If we are going to do it," Reagan told his people, "let's do it right" This ability to act boldly at critical moments is what has gained Reagan such dramatic political victories in Washington. Passage of the tax measure is not going to dispel the crisis. By November there must be moves to cut the budget more, plug other...
Since Gandhi's last official visit eleven years ago, the U.S. has become increasingly disturbed by India's resolutely independent posture, which was interpreted by Washington as a sign of coziness with the Soviet Union. Gandhi sought to dispel this impression. Said she: "Our hand of friendship is stretched out to all. One friendship does not come in the way of another...