Word: discreditable
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...virtually no doubt what the verdicts will be - guilty as charged. The judges, who are mostly party or military officials rather than professional jurists, are unlikely to ignore the well-known goals of China's strongman, Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping, and his powerful allies. One is to discredit permanently the Gang of Four and other radicals who not only purged the current leaders but also brought China to the edge of chaos. An other is to lower public esteem for Mao without discrediting the Great Helmsman entirely...
Because the extradition request named Gen. Contreras, the head of the military's secret torture-and-assassination bureaucracy, questioning by officers of the court during his trial would certainly have unearthed much of the military's deep involvement in new, distinctively unmilitary tasks. The possibility of extraordinary discredit to the Chilean military would simply have been too much for most of the Chilean military to tolerate. The spectacle of three high-ranking Chilean military officers on trial in the United States for murder would have generated tremendous pressure within the Chilean Armed Forces to stage a counter-coup against...
...readily apparent. Bell's "intellectuals" are the professors and the men of letters, the men who can conveniently transcend the fray. There is no room for a Michael Harrington, a Herbert Marcuse, or a C. Wright Mills in Bell's scheme. Indeed, much of The Winding Passage attempts to discredit these idealists--and succeeds. In method, Bell is a tantalizing combination of Muhammad Ali and Roberto Duran; he taunts, he baits, but he never refrains from slugging it out. He punishes his opponents, and occasionally his readers, with an aggressive and assertive style. The prose of these essays...
...students perform poorer than their aptitude scores indicate. I don't believe that Klitgaard included Harvard College in his findings for had he, he would have discovered the antithesis among many of the minority students here. Lastly, the dichotomy of students chosen by Klitgaard is a racist attempt to discredit the presence of Third World students on campus. Certainly Klitgaard would never have compared the aptitude scores of the sons and daughters of Harvard/Radcliffe alumni or perhaps even athletes to the rest of Harvard's white population...
...Gerbner and his associates say that Hirsch misused statistics on TV watching from the National Opinion Research Center by basing his conclusions primarily on data about the heaviest and lightest viewers, who compose only 6% of those polled. Gerbner says that Hirsch is just "nibbling around the edges to discredit what is an ongoing study in the field." Perhaps the only firm conclusion possible now is that TV can indeed foster alienation, at least among social scientists...