Word: rebuffs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...went into shock." Had any of the parties approached her, she says, she would have informed them, "Well, I'm not interested in selling my property." In part, the stance is just age-old miner's shrewdness: Don't sell your stake unless it's running out. But her rebuff also reflects a century of skirmishing between Western miners and the feds: "We Montanans feel pretty strongly about our love of the land," she says. "It is not American to be trying to wipe out selective private property...
...President's most vivid rebuff yet of Tupac Amaru's demand. And given the guerrillas' own intransigence, it illustrated just how long Peru's hostage crisis could drag on. Since the well-being of the hostages keeps Fujimori from using his iron fist to rescue them, he decided last week to rely on his own steely resolve, settling into a tense staring match with Tupac Amaru...
...appointment of Judith H. Kidd as assistant dean for public service comes as a shock and a rebuff to students involved with public service at the College.... The decision rejects the opinions of some of the most knowledgeable people on campus in the field of public service--the student and non-student directors of Phillips Brooks House Association, Inc. (PBHA).... [Kidd] is a vice president of Boston's City Year program who has never led an organization similar to PBHA.... We believe PBHA must seize this opportunity to begin raising funds for its eventual withdrawal from University financial support...
...world of relationships, but he has developed a heart the size of the Ford Foundation. He offers all--affection, unflinching honesty, gifts of fine silverware--to the men he falls for, but his charity is almost always misguided. Blue's lovers are a cold, selfish lot who rebuff his devotion with parting lines like, "Weakness isn't sexy...
...appointment of Judith H. Kidd as assistant dean for public service comes as a shock and a rebuff to students involved with public service at the College. We are dumbfounded by the decision itself and also surprised at how the administration has handled its aftermath...