Word: subverter
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Last October we disclosed that the Justice Department had information indicating that Donald Segretti had been hired by two members of the White House staff to subvert the Democratic election campaign. In March, 1973, a story in TIME revealed that Presidential Counsel Charles Colson was listed in White House records as Hunt's supervisor, and that Hunt's pay vouchers for the "caper" had been signed in Colson's office...
...need to regain respect for law, sternly administered and applied with equal severity to all. He assailed soft judges and Supreme Court decisions that enable criminals to go free on technicalities. Now his closest official associates are suspected of not only violating federal laws but also trying to subvert the judicial system to conceal their wrongdoing. One high Administration official was moved to an exaggerated lament: "I don't know why any citizen should ever again believe anything a Government official says...
...Corporation voted for disclosures by Standard Oil of California and Union Oil of California, which have contributed heavily to referendum campaigns. It abstained on disclosure by International Telephone and Telegraph, on the grounds that Dita Beard's dealings with the Republican National Committee and the company's attempt to subvert Chile's elections in 1970 "do not fall within the scope of information called for by the present disclosure resolution...
...romanticizes a return to an Islamic purity of the past, or that his call brings forth such emotion from his audiences. He looks back to the 8th century, when Arab power extended from Persia to southern France, and concludes that the Western governments have used Israel to divide and subvert the Arab nation. This kind of romanticism can lead, however, to a new cycle of despair. As Arnold Hottinger, a Swiss expert on Arab affairs, has written, "Radical discontent with the political situation as it is can lead to a fixation on goals incapable of attainment. And the ensuing frustration...
...workshop was over 70 per cent women, and often the discussion took turnts to the individual, yet shared hassles these people struggled with daily. One particular woman, from New York, again and again attempted to articulate a series of questions that boiled down to: How does one begin to subvert the alienation forced upon one by apartment living in New York City? The answers struggled out with as much difficulty as the question, and only when individuals began to relate their personal experiences of a group supportiveness and closeness, did any pattern emerge. Mothers with children and all living without...