Word: rebuff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from the other side, faculty say they often feel the same rebuff in reverse. Students don't make an effort to meet them. They hold office hours and no one comes. Non-resident tutors say they are happy to share a meal, a cup of coffee, anything, with students, but no one asks them. "There's frustration and resentment among the Faculty that they are ignored by students," Fox says. "Students have to take the initiative--it's very difficult for faculty to lasso students on the street. Faculty are available if students would just state, "This is what...
...began to surface last month, when Vickery and his staff took their plans for turning Alewife into a bustling office and light-manufacturing complex to the city council. Although neatly packaged and backed by a phalanx of silver-haired businessmen, the "revitalization" program met a quick, though probably temporary, rebuff. The council tabled the petition, instructing the planners to sit down with the councilors to discuss ways of modifying the plans...
...defiant rebuff prolongs the siege in Bogota...
...vote) in nationwide municipal elections early last week, had been intended as a concession that could lead the way out of the deadlock. In fact, the government had already named a blue-ribbon panel of nine civilian jurists to oversee the legal procedures. The terrorists' rebuff thus came as a severe disappointment...
...resolution was a far more stinging rebuff to the Soviet Union than the U.N. General Assembly's mildly worded statement, fortnight earlier, calling for a Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan. In addition, the Islamic summit, to which the Afghanistan government was invited but failed to attend, also managed to get the feuding Afghan rebel groups to form an ad hoc united front: the Islamic Alliance for the Liberation of Afghanistan. The front's spokesman, Burhanuddin Rabbani, former head of the faculty of Islamic law at Kabul University, told the conference that although Soviet troops controlled the main Afghan cities...