Word: objections
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cooperation and bipartisanship" in Kennedy's confirmation hearings and pledged to do his part. "The experience of the last several months has made all of us a bit wiser," he said. Reminded by reporters of his pledge after Bork's rejection to give the Senate a nominee they would "object to just as much," Reagan shrugged it off as a "facetious remark" made at a partisan gathering...
When asked about the fact that a steam shovel was reportedly digging up the Yale Bowl turf, and a large steel object resembling a central heating unit was being lowered into the resulting hole and the field was being sodded by a single unknown figure wearing a Yale hockey jersey and blue sunglasses. Cozza said, "Wow, he's great. He must be a superman. Where is he? I need him for the defensive line...
Buddy Bixford: The identity of this mysterious object baffles me. It tastes a little bit like...well, it sort of tastes like cottage cheese looks. But not quite...
...Most industrial robots are blind. Just like a blind man, they do something silly when something's been moved out of place from where they expect it. With visual control the robot would be able to see where the object was and adjust," said William A. Woods, McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science...
...have one small but important objection to her article. Grossman used the term "naive redneck" to describe the kind of people who are attracted to a place like Heritage U.S.A. I must strenuously object to such cavalier use of a term that is at least as offensive as other racial epithets with which we are all familiar. Of course, the people whom the more genteel of us call "redneck" happen to have white skin. They are not "people of color", Black, Hispanic or Asian-American, like myself. The term, however, applied to them is a derogatory reference to the laboring...