Word: rebutting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ferrara repeatedly refers to the UFW as "Chavez." He speaks of "Chavez" getting control of workers, of "Chavez's strike," of workers not supporting "Chavez." There is the constant implication that the union is controlled and manipulated by one man. This is the hardest kind of attack to rebut, because it is never even stated explicitly, much less documented. But if Mr. Ferrara thinks that the UFW is undemocratically run, if he thinks that the election of Chavez by a vote of the entire membership was somehow rigged, if he thinks that the UFW policy of requiring a vote...
...over two years, I served as the National Legislative Director for the United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO; and, I have just been elected to the California Legislature. I know the farm worker problem first-hand and within this space I would like to rebut the following statements made by your "reporter...
Finally, the brief tried to rebut charges that Nixon used the IRS machinery to harass political opponents. St. Clair contended that if Nixon's aides wrote memos to IRS officials seeking special tax treatment of political opponents, no such tax harassment was actually carried out. Ironically, the brief cited the "highly principled" character of the President's appointed IRS commissioners as substantiation that no White House pressure influenced them...
...SALT I treaty. It was also alleged that the Russians would be allowed to add 70 missiles to their non-nuclear submarines. Kissinger, who claims that these assertions must be based on a misapprehension of the negotiations, will have an opportunity to rebut Nitze before the committee this week. He will undoubtedly be subjected to sharp questioning...
...with what they regard as the fumbling ignorance of Stampp, Elkins and Phillips on the subject of economics and statistics. The message is perfectly clear. Historians who do not have these tools could grope for another hundred years in subjective confusion and never be able even to evaluate or rebut the work of the cliometricians...