Word: witch-hunt
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...world's leading biologists, signed his name over a co- author's research that federal investigators later determined was faked. His mistake might have been forgiven, but not his prideful refusal to re- examine the data. Instead he belittled the whistle-blowers and decried the government's "witch-hunt." The controversy helped bring about his resignation as president of Rockefeller University...
...Deadly Medicine, Veronica Hamel plays a pediatrician with a loving husband who is building their dream house. Her downfall begins when she hires a nurse (Susan Ruttan) who turns out to be a baby killer. The doctor, naturally, is accused of the crime, and the result is a witch-hunt that would have done Salem proud: patients leave her, crank callers pester her, and her husband turns...
Mazowiecki is cautioning his countrymen that economic experiments could bring disaster and warns that an anti-Communist witch-hunt could lead to civil war. His supporters portray Walesa as a potential dictator; Solidarity ideologue Adam Michnik, for instance, recently described him as "malicious, antagonistic and dangerous" and likely to create the first "Peronist-style" government in Eastern Europe. The Prime Minister's standing received a boost last week when German Chancellor Helmut Kohl unexpectedly agreed to a treaty confirming Poland's western border with Germany...
Three days later, Zhou went into hiding after he learned that the innovative Stone Corp., the computer firm he had worked for as a policy planner, had become the target of a witch-hunt. Its president, Wan Runnan, now a leading dissident in exile in Paris, had been close to then party chief Zhao Ziyang and an ardent supporter of the students...
...turn to face the issue. Next January, for the first time since 1983, a new face will be occupying the Corner Office. While the next few months should be spent choosing a leader who will lead this troubled state into stabler fiscal ground, what may result is a political witch-hunt, with each side of the abortion issue attempting to brand candidates "politically correct" or "incorrect...