Word: rebut
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Until last week financier Charles Keating had insisted on being the final witness at congressional hearings on the $2.5 billion disaster at Lincoln Savings & Loan, so that he could rebut the witnesses who had accused him of staving off a federal crackdown on his troubled thrift by lavishing money on influential politicians. But as the aggressive ex-fighter pilot, Olympic swimmer and pillar of the Phoenix business community was being sworn in before the House Banking Committee, his right hand trembled noticeably. His tanned face flushed, his 6-ft. 5-in. frame slumped, Keating, 66, demanded that television cameras...
Baltimore dealt with the inquiry in a confrontational and almost flippant manner. Except for a scanty correction in Cell, Baltimore never even attempted to rebut the allegations that the Cell project was a product of wholesale deception...
...laudable that A Common Destiny resists the easy summary that leads to TV-style sound bites. But there is also the danger that the report may be unjustly ignored. The enduring value of A Common Destiny can be found in the mountain of evidence it marshals to rebut a series of debilitating myths about the true state of contemporary race relations...
Granieri points to his Democratic roots to rebut accusations that his conservatism is merely the product of upbringing. "I never liked it when I said I'm conservative and people said my parents are conservative," he says. "I used to bristle at that. Nobody asks liberal students about their parents...
...there is hope for Phillip, my alleged middle brother Michael more than makes up for it. He joined the high school newspaper the year after I did. I've always believed that it was in an effort to rebut my "liberal Jesse Jackson editorials...