Word: dispell
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...WOULD LIKE TO take this opportunity to respond to the article appearing in Peninsula's October/November 1991 issue entitled "AIDS is not a gay disease." I applaud the author's intent to dispel any "lies" or "half-truths" and to inform the Harvard community of the "truth" surrounding HIV-infection and AIDS. But unfortunately, he presented information and statistics, often out-dated, which do not represent the entire present specter of the AIDS threat to both homosexual and heterosexual communities...
...credit, George Bush has made a few attempts to dispel his image of old money elitism. In 1988, he claimed a penchant for pork rinds. (This populist snack, it turns out, has not been found in the White House in the past three years.) Last summer, he nominated Clarence Thomas, who grew up dirt poor, to the Supreme Court. And just recently, Bush was photographed buying pants at J.C. Penney, a shop not typically noted for its patrician clientele...
Secondine now helps his family dispel some of the stereotypes that may result from lack of contact with people of different ethnic and racial backgrounds. He recalls bringing his answering machine home this past summer and observing his family hear some of the messages...
...notes. Always send one if an employer has taken time to see you at his workplace. Besides thanking him for the interview, reemphasize any point you feel may have been especially important. Also, if the employer showed any doubts about your background, follow up with points which would help dispel any doubts...
...seriously not only out of their desperate desire to believe but also because they do not accept the government's word as final. The Pentagon's bureaucratic bumbling, secretiveness and mixed signals have led some families to feel there is a conspiracy to conceal the truth. To try to dispel that fog, a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee will soon investigate whether there is truth in any of the sightings reports and why the Pentagon seems so unresponsive...