Word: reject
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Boston University's faculty union voted yesterday evening to reject the administration's proposed contract renewal and to consider going on strike next term unless B.U. president John R. Silber presents an acceptable alternative...
...White House wanted an open commitment from Republican William Cohen of Maine, another co-sponsor of the resolution to reject the sale. Cohen is a friend of Presidential Adviser Michael Deaver, and they discussed the issue at length. He also met twice with the President. In their second session, he said that he was afraid Israel would become a scapegoat if the sale were rejected, and that the embers of anti-Semitism would be fanned. But Cohen also told Reagan he feared "another holocaust" if Israel's hostile neighbors were further armed. On the latter point, Reagan was reassuring...
Under the U.S. indult, which will remain in force until the new code goes into effect, perhaps by 1983, annulments are handled by a local church tribunal. When an annulment is approved, the American hierarchy assigns a bishop to accept or reject it. Almost all local verdicts are approved. But other nations are required to hold a time-consuming second trial, after which couples may appeal to the Vatican. The new proposal calls for a regional panel to review all the testimony after a local tribunal has endorsed an annulment, but not a second trial...
...strong that it will emerge irrevocably weakened," one tenant activist says. Compromise, they insist, is impossible, and they view those who suggest it as greater enemies of rent control than those who oppose the program all together. In a contest between those who support rent control, and those who reject it absolutely, tenants have won. Calls for compromise, for mediation of differences, introduce a new variable and reduce the polarization of city politics around the issue that has served tenants well...
...Egyptian President Anwar Sadat has given new impetus to the antiwithdrawal movement, some of whose supporters openly rejoiced over Sadat's murder. They argue that international law recognizes that circumstances change, and believe that in a national referendum, which they hope will be called, Israeli voters would reject the Sinai withdrawal...