Word: suppresses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...judge concluded that Harvard's transgression was not an attempt to suppress unfavorable evidence. And though he offered Jackson the opportunity to reopen the discovery process, she declined to press the matter further. With Harvard's error dismissed, Woodlock ultimately ruled that gender played no part in the University's decision...
...judge concluded that Harvard's transgression was not an attempt to suppress unfavorable evidence. And though he offered Jackson the opportunity to reopen the discovery process, she declined to press the matter further. With Harvard's error dismissed, Woodlock ultimately ruled that gender played no part in the University's decision...
...feared civilian bureaucracy (total employees: 123,000) routinely clamps down on its low-level miscreants, it is prone to ignore wrongdoing by members of its old- boy network. At the same time, IRS managers appear to be so concerned with the agency's public image that they would rather suppress whistleblowers than root out unethical and illegal activity. Last week's hearings explored the results of a year-long probe by the subcommittee, which found evidence of misconduct and cover-ups involving more than 25 top IRS officials in ten cities. Among the allegations...
Others argue that asking people not to buy lettuce is different from asking them not to buy a rocker's artistic expression. Ideas (carefully disguised) lurk somewhere in the lyrics. All the more reason to keep criticism of them free. If ideas are too important to suppress, they are also too important to ignore. The whole point of free speech is not to make ideas exempt from criticism but to expose them...
Despite concerns that the expansion will falter, most economists believe a modest slowdown is necessary to suppress inflation, which had grown particularly stubborn in the past two years. Consumer prices rose at an annual rate of 5.9% during the first half of 1989, up from 4.1% last year. "The economy was running too fast for its own good," says Francis Schott, chief economist for Equitable Life Assurance. "It was working itself up to an inflationary frenzy...