Word: rebuff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anti-American protests in Panama. Anytime that a country as powerful as the United States attacks a small country like Panama, it receives a rebuff not only from Latin American people but also from Americans with good sense. We are a real democracy. Our parliament is composed of blacks, Indians, whites and mixed races. This is Panama. You have to live here to understand it and not to slander...
...move came on the heels of a Justice Department plea to the same body, urging a rebuff of Greyhound Lines's request that it be allowed to begin operating ailing Trailways immediately rather than wait for formal approval of a merger between the firms. Justice argued that allowing Greyhound to run Trailways before the ICC has studied the proposed merger would blur the companies' respective identities and make it difficult to restore competition should the merger be turned down. At week's end the ICC gave Greyhound temporary permission to operate Trailways after Justice changed its mind. The reasoning...
...ruling represents another rebuff to the Reagan Administration by the high bench, which last term spurned the Justice Department's contention that affirmative action should be used only to remedy harm to individual victims of discrimination. This time the department, which brought the case to the Supreme Court when the troopers declined to appeal, argued simply that affirmative relief must be narrowly tailored, like "hand and glove." Solicitor General Charles Fried denounced the one-for-one quota as "excessive" and "profoundly illegal...
...balls are shot from cannons, pounded and squeezed--all to ensure uniformity and no rebuff any claims that "livelier balls" are the reason that someone's star pitcher is getting hammered...
...another peace overture: Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's 1986 call for nuclear disarmament. As in the case of the earlier proposal, however, the prospects for last week's offer seemed bleak. Najibullah bluntly qualified the initiative, stating that "if someone continues to fire, he will get a fitting rebuff." Mohammed Nabi Mohammedi, the rebels' chief spokesman, labeled the cease-fire offer a "sham" and immediately rejected...