Word: rebuff
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...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...
This high-handed rebuff is particularly disturbing because--as President Bok so often reminds demonstrators--the University is founded on the principle of the free exchange of ideas. The Corporation should not flee from open discussion...
...representatives limited themselves to a statement declaring that they "shared the United Kingdom's sense of outrage" at the El Al incident and at the fact that "state agencies" were involved. Though Syria was never mentioned, Greece would not even go along with this mild rebuff...