Word: rebuff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...entry met a shocking rebuff. It is a lump-in-the-throat spot about Mike Sewell, a youth born with Down's syndrome, who found a job and happiness at McDonald's. The crowd in the giant auditorium at Cannes greeted it with raucous boos and whistles. "This is the most vicious, cynical, jaded audience in the world," said Marcio Moreira, creative director of McCann-Erickson Worldwide. "They don't like to have their emotions manipulated...
Even worse, Cantor latches onto Nietzsche's concept that humanity's focus has shifted from God to the community. Cantor adds no contemporary wisdom to the ideas of this late German philosopher--he just parades them as a grand "I told you so" rebuff to the media and other cultural evils of modern society...
...meeting with representatives of the Undergraduate Council, search committee members rebuff a request for increased student input...
...meeting with representatives of the Undergraduate Council, search committee members rebuff a request for increased student input...
...valor and elected in 1964 as a Labour Member of Parliament, Maxwell was involved in a corporate takeover battle that led Britain's Department of Trade and Industry to conclude in 1971 that he could not "be relied on to exercise proper stewardship of a publicly quoted company." The rebuff hardly stopped him: his empire embraces more than 450 companies, with interests ranging from dailies in Budapest and Nairobi to soccer teams in Britain and a pharmaceutical house in Israel...