Word: tarnishing
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...discredit the image of Kenya abroad." Kenya is a one-party state, and President Kenyatta has already been declared re-elected to another five-year term for lack of opposition. Still, in the parliamentary elections next week, publicity about high-level hanky-panky over the ruby mine could tarnish the government's reputation in the eyes of Kenya's 12 million people...
...down the evasions of company doctors, reveal the indifference of Government bureaucrats charged with enforcing industrial health laws. They come to a common conclusion: for many years, many industries, doctors and Government agencies have joined in a tacit conspiracy to downplay industrial dangers in order not to panic workers, tarnish corporate images or endanger profits. Brodeur is especially effective in detailing the overlapping membership of medical experts on boards that advise both industry and the Government agencies that set safety standards, mostly with the good of industry in mind...
Also, resignation might allow Nixon to work out a deal with prosecutors and Ford to void any possibility of criminal prosecution after he left office. It would lessen the chance of additional evidence being made public that would further tarnish his image. It would help retain his emotional base of supporters...
...Tarnish. Westmoreland's other chief enterprise is running a five-man operation known as the Governor's Task Force for Economic Growth, a $25,000-a-year post to which he was named in 1972 by Governor John West. It calls for Westmoreland to handle a wide variety of projects aimed at expanding the state's business and industry, from promoting its tourist attractions to Canadians, to seeking investment capital from visiting Japanese businessmen, to spreading the word to farmers about new agricultural methods. As usual, the general is double-timing on his new job. Driving alone...
...King's activism worries some of his supporters. One high Western diplomat, for example, fears that Bhumibol might tarnish his image as an individual above politics, and thus deprive the Thais of "the one thing they have going for them: the stability that the King provides." In that case, unrest and turmoil could mount and lead to a return of military rule. As one member of the constitutional-drafting committee puts it: "The military has the guns and planes. All we have to stop them is the constitution and our idealism." For the moment, at least, idealism in Thailand...