Word: reject
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stick to its guns at the talks. Mindful of the Carter administration's disastrous bargaining attempts, the Reagan administration is steadfastly determined not to follow suit. Last week, administration officials acted quickly to hush up reports that it had a fall-back position prepared in case the Soviets reject the "zero-option." If the Soviets are to score any points, they will have to do so at the negotiating table...
...THIS BRAZENLY POLITICAL APPROACH to the problems of a nuclear age that makes the message of the Nuclear Convocation day vital. Walt, and others who might reject the validity of teach-ins, fail to acknowledge their value as preliminary educational and organizational tools. Consider just a few of the accomplishments achieved here and at other schools: student peace groups received new encouragement and direction for long-term anti-war activism; physicians and scientists strengthened their growing political network, which is designed, in part, to provide specific information on such topics as the infeasibility of coping medically with nuclear...
...give you an answer on that later. There are some things I want to know." Only after grilling Stockman, seeking an explanation of why the younger man had talked so freely to a reporter and just how committed he really was to the Administration's policies, did Reagan reject the resignation...
...establishment of a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital. This is the crux, and the main sticking point, of the whole plan. The Israelis reject the notion of an independent Palestinian state out of hand. The Palestinians insist on statehood as the sine qua non of any peace agreement. One possible compromise: the P.L.O. might conceivably accept an entity in confederation with Jordan in order to get around Israeli objections, but only after receiving solid assurances of full and independent statehood in the future...
...existence, something that no Arab country apart from Egypt has ever granted. The Israelis endorse peaceful coexistence, but they insist that the state of Israel must be mentioned by name in any declaration of that principle. On the Arab side, only the Libyans and the P.L.O. hard-liners reject the notion of peaceful coexistence with Israel...