Word: rebuffs
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...about government intervention. Posner may be reluctant to back some of the more extreme remedies Microsoft's critics are calling for. At the very least, he's likely to give the software giant a friendlier hearing than Jackson, whose findings of fact last month were a down-the-line rebuff...
...your story, a seventh-grader in Jonesboro said, "Everybody at Westside [school] knows how to shoot a gun." I'm sorry, but someone who doesn't understand the difference between shooting a deer and shooting a human being over a rebuff does not know how to use a gun. Until the N.R.A. is ready to take on the responsibility of making sure every gun user thoroughly understands this major distinction, the gun lobbyists should shut up and let the U.S. have some decent gun laws. It is just too, too easy for irresponsible people to get hold of the means...
Radiocarbon experts, however, rebuff both sets of charges. Choosing an unbesmirched area was one of the most important decisions they could have made at the time. Says anthropologist R. Ervin Taylor, director of the radiocarbon-dating lab at the University of California at Riverside: "If they sampled in the wrong place, then they were idiots--and I know that's not the case." Geoscientist Paul Damon, a member of the University of Arizona team that tested one of the 1988 samples, hastens to say that the swatch was selected conscientiously and on the advice of textile experts. Contradicting Adler...
...major diplomatic rebuff, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu canceled a dinner with Cook after the foreign secretary met with Palestinian representatives in Arab East Jerusalem. Netanyahu?s move is a sign of the limits of E.U. leverage in the Mideast peace process: "The European Union has no influence whatsoever over Israel," says Beyer. "To say even that Cook's visit will achieve very little would be an unrealistically high expectation...
...rebuff to the IOC, the court ruled that the Olympic body had no business testing athletes for marijuana ? good news for a hemp-friendly snowboarding community that had gotten all fired up over Rebagliati?s disqualification. The Japanese police were less forgiving, however, interviewing the athlete and searching his room for traces of the illegal substance. Rebagliati claims he hasn?t used marijuana in 10 months, and that the traces in his bloodstream came from secondhand smoke...