Word: slanderous
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...Fair Trade success is not to slander companies for their bad habits (like Starbucks, the only major specialty coffee buyer that won’t certify that five percent of its beans are Fair Trade), but to encourage them to offer more Fair Trade products. If Fair Trade were on brew every time I opened my cup, I would drink it. Regular Fair Trade purchases and suggestion box comments will do the trick, because rather than a movement of noise-making, this is a movement of expressing consumer interest—the companies are there, after all, to meet consumer...
...SENTENCED. LI LAN, 47, peasant farmer, to one year in prison for "slander"; in Lanshan, Hunan province, China. Li led a drive to impeach a local police official after her pregnant daughter was killed in a battle between two village clans. She collected more than 1,000 signatures and thumbprints from people saying the police had not done enough to investigate. She was arrested in 2001 shortly after TIME wrote about her efforts...
...This whole illegitimate petition is just a chance to slander Israel’s name, and we are fighting so that it doesn’t happen,” he said...
...officials, United Nations weapons inspectors are really nothing more than spies. When Saddam's government accepted the UN resolution that enabled their return, Foreign Minister Sabri's letter to Secretary General Kofi Annan denounced the U.S. as "the tyrant of the age" whose allegations against Iraq amounted to "wicked slander...
...Coulter is an expert on slander. Slander, after all, was the title of her second book, in which she hurls the word at virtually every member of the mainstream American media. More than that, she was not so far from it herself in a speech sponsored by the Harvard Republican Club in Sever Hall on Saturday. A year after she famously proposed that the U.S. deport all Muslim aliens unless they agreed to spy on Muslim citizens for the government, Coulter this weekend revealed that her political delusions and attack-dog style are virtually unchanged. The title of this year?...