Word: reject
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With few exceptions, economists reject proposals for returning the world's money system to gold. Yale's Robert Triffin, for example, says that it is "an absurd waste of human resources to dig gold in distant corners of the earth for the sole purpose of transporting it and reburying it immediately afterward in other deep holes." Yet gold's hold on the general public remains. As Janos Fekete, the deputy head of the National Bank of Hungary, once explained at a conference of monetary experts: "There are about 300 economists who are against gold - and they might...
...several months, plans to return home this week and quietly resume his duties. As the sole bishop in China accepted by both the Vatican and the Communist regime, Tang is clearly supposed to help improve relations between Rome and Peking and with China's "patriotic" bishops who reject papal authority. But the prospects seem dim. Peking quickly denounced the appointment as "an interference in China's internal affairs," and the patriotic bishops called it "illegal" and "intolerable...
...same time, the White House gave the Office of Management and Budget the authority to make sure that such rules and regulations are really cost effective. If not, OMB can reject them. In cases of dispute, a regulatory task force headed by Vice President George Bush will rule on the issue...
...harassment and physical assault, despite a large collection of defaced posters (including one that said, "Hitler was right, Gays should be exterminated."), despite private assurances from the general counsel's office that such a policy would pose no legal difficulties for the College, the Faculty Council chose to reject a flat statement of non-discrimination policy because of its "legal implications." The Council did quietly agree, however, to make permanent a temporary guarantee introduced recently by L. Fred Jewett '57, dean of admissions, promising no discrimination on the basis of sexual preference in undergraduate admissions. The Council issued instead...
...tendency to reject the call to Harvard results from a combination of academic and political factors that bear directly on the status of Afro-American studies at the University. Academically, the interdisciplinary nature of the departmental program has discouraged scholars from leaving positions at other universities. Afro-American studies at Harvard has emphasized the need for as broad as possible a perspective on the experience of Afro-Americans, a goal that Huggins is quick to affirm: "The type of program I've tried to establish is not the normal curriculum for a program in Afro-American studies." Adding that most...