Word: suppress
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...conceal the alcohol on our breath, in case we encountered a checkpoint run by Islamic paramilitaries. When the rhetoric cooled, the system turned its sights back to its angry young people and essentially decided to stanch their discontent by buying them off. While continuing to brutally suppress all political dissent, the mullahs boosted subsidies on gas and household commodities. But most significant, they began loosening control over the lifestyle choices of the 48 million Iranians under the age of 30, who make up more than two-thirds of the population...
...Nixon's efforts to use the agency for political purposes. Deep Throat, wrote Mann, probably resented the appointment of outsider and Nixon loyalist L. Patrick Gray to replace FBI Director Hoover, who had died six weeks before the Watergate break-in, and wanted to blunt White House efforts to suppress the FBI investigation of the burglary. Of course, the FBI under Hoover had its problems with autocratic control and operations outside the normal bounds of law enforcement. In 1980 Felt was convicted of approving "black-bag jobs," illegal searches of homes of relatives and friends of fugitive American radicals. (Felt...
...penal system where, according to the U.S. State Department and the U.N., torture is "routine" and "systematic." But after the Uzbek military reportedly killed at least 500 people after an uprising in Andijan two weeks ago, Karimov is under fire from a source that's more difficult to suppress: the international community. The British have called for an investigation into the shootings, as have the U.N. and the European Union. Craig Murray, the ambassador Britain recalled from Tashkent last year, says that Karimov is "indignant now that anyone should have the temerity to criticize him." The Uzbek government insists that...
When boxers, wrestlers and Taekwondo contestants at the 2004 Athens Olympics were randomly assigned either red or blue uniforms, researchers found that red won more bouts. The authors of the study, published in Nature, speculated that the color might boost the testosterone of those wearing it or suppress that of their opponents--or both...
...anyone’s idea is automatically “right” without hearing the other side, regardless of how ridiculous that other side may seem. Virtually all ideas, including civil rights, gender equality, and sexual preference equality, were once the minority opinion. The solution is not to suppress an opinion, but rather to address it directly and on its merits. I still hold out hope that American society will be able to see both sides of any issue and make its own educated choice, rather than forcing out the opinion that doesn’t fit the current...