Word: rebutting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Well aware of the Senate criticism of the impending SALT agreement, both officials took pains to rebut charges that the U.S. is becoming a second-rate power. Said Vance: "The distorted proposition being advanced by some that America is in a period of decline in the world is not only wrong as a matter of fact but dangerous as a basis for policy." If the U.S. shies away from military intervention abroad, he said, that is a sign not of weakness but of a mature recognition that "our military forces cannot provide a satisfactory answer to the purely internal problems...
...Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge, the desk clerk seems first to rebut, then to affirm, Carmen's assessment. "Been keeping up with all the presidential candidates traipsing through Manchester?" "Yeah," he says brightly. "A couple of them were right here at the lodge." "Which ones?" A gulp. "I can't remember which ones...
...want both views presented, and a chance to rebut his position," Molyneux added...
Though still in prison, the charismatic Aquino has managed to turn the campaign into a genuine contest-with some unwitting help from the government. Last month Aquino was given the chance on national television to rebut official charges that he had been a CIA agent. Speaking from his detention center in Fort Bonifacio, Aquino first coolly refuted the CIA charge. Then, with millions of Manilans still glued to their TV sets, he launched into a crisp, rapid-fire denial of a raft of other government charges against him. That dramatic appearance provided a crucial boost to Marcos' opposition, whose...
State Rep. James W. Segal '67, who will rebut Handlin's editorial on WCVB-TV (channel 5) this week, said yesterday he felt there was a possible conflict of interest between Handlin's loyalty to his employer and his writing and reading the TV editorial...