Word: reject
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What happens to the spirit of Camp David now that the deadline has lapsed? Washington is looking to Jerusalem for the answer. Said Carter late last week: "Now it is up to the Israelis to either accept [the treaty] or reject it." Jerusalem anticipates direct pressure from Washington. Israeli officials speculate that the Administration might delay arms shipments and refuse to discuss extra financial aid. (Israel is due to receive $2.2 billion in U.S. military and economic aid in the current fiscal year...
...took all of this thoughtful criticism to heart. But I am not particularly sanguine. Looking at the matter realistically, taking a modest view of the impression undergraduate concerns can (and should) make on university policies and plans in general, we miss the boat if we categorically reject Brustein and his proposals. It would now be best to put aside antagonisms and welcome Brustein and the exciting possibilities he has suddenly opened up. Whitney Davis...
...college went into summer hibernation, so did the Hanfstaengl issue. But come fall, pressure to reject the scholarship offer mounted. The matter was quickly settled, or at least addressed, by Conant and the Fellows in their letter rejecting the money...
...labor side, most union leaders angrily reject the 7% limit on wage-and-benefit raises. They note that the increased costs of maintaining jealously guarded benefits, such as health insurance and pensions, would eat up most, and in some cases all, of the allowable raise without adding a dime to paychecks. Amid cries for more flexibility, the Administration stumbled about for several weeks before it indicated last week that workers would not be charged for higher costs of maintaining present benefit levels...
Even with these fixes, union chiefs reject the guidelines, which they contend limit wages much more rigidly than prices. Last week the 22,000-member Western Pulp and Paper Workers sued in federal court in Portland, Ore., to have the standards declared illegal. The charge: the program is mandatory, and the President has no congressional authority to impose it. United Auto Workers President Douglas Fraser insists that the only way to win labor's support would be for Congress to enact the President's proposal granting tax rebates to obedient union members and other groups if the inflation...