Word: smearing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sixteen sets of fingerprints. A revealing smear of red paint. Ballistics tests on high-powered rifle bullets. A collection of such solid clues has raised serious new questions about the official investigation into the brutal murder late last year of three American nuns and a lay religious worker in El Salvador. But TIME has learned that while the inquiry has turned up an impressive amount of hard evidence about what took place, Salvadoran authorities are stonewalling, stubbornly refusing to press the inquiry to the point where their own security forces might become implicated...
...prevention of cancer seems to be the emphasis of future research. The Pap Smear, a simple test for women's cervical cancer and the Ames procedure, which identifies chemicals as carcinogens, have gained in popularity. Also, self-examination of the breasts has become a more effective method of early detection and prevention. The ultimate goal of research in cures and prevention--the elimination of any deaths from cancer--remains a distant dream. But, with hope, the numbers of deaths can be reduced to much lower levels than those of today...
...then high interest rates ruined the housing market. He moved from a five-bedroom house to a three-bedroom apartment and sold the family car, yet still could not keep up with his bills. Nevertheless, like many others in the same situation, what bothers him most is the smear on his record. This week he planned to seek a court order directing Amtrak to reinstate him. "It wasn't right," he says. "I want to be completely vindicated...
...Proud, defiant, nearly regal in her contempt when the trial opened almost seven weeks ago, the onetime actress turned its final hours into a dramatic shouting match. Presiding Judge Zeng Hanzhou interrupted her concluding remarks on the grounds that she was using her right to speak to "smear and vilify party and state leaders," which, he said, was a "counterrevolutionary" offense...
Asked in the fourth debate whether the tone of his campaign was negative, O'Neal said he had tried to be positive. "If I wanted to resort to innuendo and smear," he noted," I'd be bringing up a drunk driving charge and how a Wendy's franchise was transferred in the secretary of state's office." He was referring to traffic charges brought against Dixon in California in 1977 and Dixon's management of a hamburger franchise regulated by his office...