Word: suppress
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...unsettling brand of reactionary feminism finds itself grasping at scientific straws, overcome by its own political agenda. Armed with its stigmatizing accusations of “bias” and “sexist,” many trigger-happy feminists are resorting to McCarthyist slander to suppress scientific discourse in the academic community...
...enforce a corrosive policy,” said the spokesman, John D. Longbrake.Department of Defense spokeswoman Lt. Col. Ellen G. Krenke wrote in an e-mail yesterday that in enforcing the Solomon Amendment, the Pentagon is “not asking for special treatment or seeking to compel or suppress free speech.”“We simply want to be able to compete on an even playing field for the best and brightest that our nation’s universities have to offer,” Krenke wrote.‘WARNING: DISCRIMINATING EMPLOYER INSIDE?...
...overthrow the landlord class. The current crop of Communist leaders is aware that rural unrest could spark political mayhem, especially when cell phones and the Internet can connect citizens with the click of a button. In some cases, such as in Panlong, local officials have resorted to violence to suppress the uprisings, which has only incited more rage. In response to the rising furor, President Hu Jintao announced plans last month to give billions of dollars in central-government aid to farmers. "If farmers are rich, then the country will be prosperous," Hu said. "If villages are stable, then...
...grasp of a key immune system protein,” according to a press release. Gold-based drugs have been used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases. De Wall and DeDecker’s research began in 2001, with the goal of finding new drugs to suppress autoimmune response, a reaction by the body against its own cells or tissues. Instead, they “discovered a biochemical mechanism that may help explain how an old drugs works,” DeDecker said in the press release. “This previously unknown allosteric mechanism may help resolve...
...Administration has backed Musharraf on the basis that he is cooperating in the war on terror - even if not to the extent the U.S. demands - and that the alternatives are worse. But many secular liberals in Pakistan complain that Musharraf brandishes the jihadi threat to maintain military rule and suppress Pakistan's main moderate political parties, quite a far cry from the democratic values trumpeted by the Bush Administration. The jihadist element has long been nurtured by the Pakistani security establishment, which cultivated it during the anti-Soviet campaign in Afghanistan in the 1980s (later helping the Taliban to seize...