Word: rebut
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minute counteroffensive delivered to reporters and television cameras, Wright sought to rebut point by point the charges being lodged against him by the House ethics committee, which was writing its final report after a 10-month, $1.5 million investigation of his finances...
...corruption charges that have been scorching Greek politics engulfed Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou last week in the worst crisis of his tenure. Papandreou found himself compelled to rebut allegations by the central figure in the multimillion-dollar banking scandal that the Prime Minister personally received some of those millions as secret payments for political favor. The accusations, which ran in TIME and as a cover story in several of the magazine's foreign editions, inspired passionate outcry in Greece and provoked opposition leaders in Parliament to demand the Prime Minister's resignation...
...remarks intended to rebut Bush's charges of liberalism, the Massachusetts governor said: "We heard a lot of talk last night from Mr. Bush about the mainstream. But it's clear that he's willing to leave American families high...
Meese was outraged that McKay would accuse him of unlawful conduct without giving him his day in court to rebut the charges. Meese termed McKay's tactics "absolutely at odds with every principle of our system of justice" and said he would fire any prosecutor in his department who promoted such "a false implication of wrongdoing...
...departure increased, Meese decried the accusations as media mugging and "partisan politics," vowing that he would not be forced out of office. His about-face, therefore, caught the White House off guard. Only two weeks ago Meese had told top Reagan aides that he would stick around to rebut McKay's report and attend the Republican Convention, finally packing his bags in September. Reagan had not put any resignation pressure on Meese, his longtime friend and aide and the last of the Californians that the President brought with him to Washington in 1981. Other White House officials, however...