Word: reject
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...furor also brought Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) to each district late last week. Kennedy--who has a strong Catholic following--urged voters to "reject the politics of negativism" and repeated his support for Frank and Shannon...
Richard also loves dressing up to different costumes, whether a severe coat or bright red cape. When he hankers for the throne but pretends piously to reject sit, he finally takes off a dun-colored clerical cassock and turns it inside out to reveal--hilariously--an instantaneous royal-purple velvet gown...
...January elections to the parliament, Banisadr's supporters were soundly defeated by candidates of the Islamic Republic Party. Led by an archenemy, Ayatullah Seyyed Mohammed Beheshti, the cleric-dominated parliament now threatens to stonewall him as the outgoing Revolutionary Council did. Among other things, it can reject his candidate for the office of Prime Minister, and continue to block his efforts to solve the American hostage problem...
Most of Ulster's Protestants reject unification. Their longstanding distrust of the Catholic South has been intensified by continuing hit-and-run raids across the long, largely open border by Provisional Irish Republican Army (I.R.A.) terrorists based in the Republic. In the border area of Newtownbutler alone, 51 Protestants have been shot by terrorists in the past few years. "It's as bad as Viet Nam here now," said a South Tyrone auto mechanic who had seen two co-workers gunned down by Prove hit men a week earlier. At an angry protest meeting in Newtownbutler last month...
District 65, United Auto Workers, first attempted to unionize Med Area employees six years ago. Its protracted struggle ended in defeat in June 1977 when workers voted to reject the representation...