Word: taint
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While playing the council's way would entail a series of reforms that might be reasonable, the imperious nature with which the requests were made was unreasonable. Directives such as these taint the community relationship the Ivy Council attempts to establish. The Ivy Council constitution, to which all member student governments have agreed, presents fair avenues through which student government concerns may be voiced and resolved. Unwarranted ultimatums fall below the level of maturity and sophistication one would expect from student leaders at a preeminent institution of higher education...
Former FBI Director William H. Webster, 76, who ran the bureau under Carter and Reagan and the Central Intelligence Agency under Reagan and Bush, has consented to lend a little of his luster to FBI Director Louis Freeh, who is struggling to dispel the taint of the FBI's worst spy scandal. As head of an inquiry into the intelligence disaster, Webster says sympathetically that decades of experience have taught him one thing: "There is no absolutely fail-safe setup that will quickly and immediately identify a good man or woman who goes sour. So our focus will...
...Justice Department officials who have spoken out against the pardons), should be considered seriously. Even for those willing to overlook Clinton's (many) personal failings in light of his political successes, it has become impossible to claim that the perfidious nature of Clinton's personal life did not irrevocably taint his ability to serve his country as a statesman...
...Apparently Senate collegiality will get John Ashcroft safely through to the post of attorney general, and I would guess Gale Norton will make it as secretary of the interior, despite the taint of her having been a protégée of James Watt, the egregious lulu who served as Ronald Reagan's interior secretary; Watt did not worry much about the environment, since he believed that the biblical Armageddon was just around the corner and would presently moot all controversies over oil drilling, logging and other worldly trifles...
...musicians of our generation. Nevertheless, this small blurb seems the perfect place to appropriately acknowledge her understated genius. Harvey modestly writes her songs for herself and the fans of great alternative music on both sides of the Atlantic, not for radio stations and big record labels, who could only taint her art through exploitation and commercialization. Quietly, Harvey composed two of the very best albums of the '90s (1995's perfectly cooked To Bring You My Love and 1993's brilliantly raw Rid of Me), and her latest release, Stories From the City, Stories from the Sea, promises...