Word: opprobrium
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Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko has a more recent reason for personal bitterness toward the U.S. As Moscow's chief international spokesman, he took the brunt of worldwide opprobrium after the Soviet Union shot down a Korean airliner late last summer; when he was due in New York for a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, local politicians refused to let him land at the area's commercial airports and Washington told him he would have to fly into a military field. Deeply offended, Gromyko called off the trip. Washington analysts believe he raised his increasingly influential voice in favor...
Meselson says he will contine to press his investigation of the alleged chemical warfare and expresses confidence that the government story will eventually unravel. If indeed the State Department acted too hastily, it should move quickly to retract its charges and withstand the opprobrium it is sure to receive...
...recent publicity has also sparked a reaction of sympathy for the harasser. However, unfortunate as the consequences of public opprobrium may be, they should be considered before harassing one's students and colleagues. We should be concerned instead with the devastating impact this case has had on the lives and careers of the victims. Prevailing social attitudes tend to subject the victims of crimes like rape or sexual harassment to more scrutiny than the perpetrators, yet the victims in this case have far more at stake than does Professor Dominguez: their careers are not as well established, they...
Public relations professionals are often the press's best friend. We keep a dialogue going between business and the public. We are constantly battling top executives who instinctively want to bar the press except on management's terms. We do not deserve the opprobrium heaped upon us by our "friends" in the media...
...helped develop the Soviet hydrogen bomb. He later went on to gain greater fame as the champion of human rights in the U.S.S.R. and the winner of the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize, though he has been roundly vilified in the Soviet press. The Soviets' fear of incurring worldwide opprobrium was compounded a month ago, when Sakharov managed to get a message to the West that if he died during his hunger strike, the KGB might well be guilty of his murder...