Word: smears
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They silence students, deans and professors. Ask youself about the smear job done to Dean Jewett's relatively mild observation about date rape. Can anyone wonder why Professor Stephan Thernstrom and Professor Bernard Bailyn don't teach the "Peopling of America" any more...
...time, the Sea Island terminal spill could be compounded by a flood of oil from a major refinery, either as the result of a U.S. attack or a decision by Iraq to open the faucets. A single refinery tank can hold millions of gallons -- enough to smear large stretches of the sebkha, the flat coastal terrain where Kuwaiti refineries are located...
...will have no choice but to embarrass you some more. We will have no choice but to smear your name in the disgusting truth that you have created...
...parlous times ahead. In conservative, Catholic countries like Hungary and Poland, there is a strong reassertion of traditional values, and that puts political careers for women at risk. Ungarn hid from her constituency the fact that she was divorced, and is careful to keep her personal life spotless. "Any smear on the purity of your image can totally spoil your chances," she says. "Here women are still judged differently from...
...Burrough, 29, co-author of the best seller Barbarians at the Gate, has become a formidable chronicler of Roaring Eighties-style shenanigans and greed. In a deal befitting a literary superstar, publisher HarperCollins last month agreed to pay Burrough $1 million for a book on American Express and the smear campaign it waged in the 1980s against international banker Edmond Safra. "I was absolutely stunned," Burrough said of the cash advance. "To me, the money is not a real thing. It's kind of like it's happening to someone else...