Word: reject
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When several publishing houses reject a manuscript by a Nobel Prize-winner like Saul Bellow, it's a sure sign that something is wrong. But I was optimistic as I began reading his new novella A Theft, convinced that I would discover an overlooked masterpiece. Unfortunately, all those publishing houses were not wrong...
...widely accepted category of forbidden deals involves health and safety regulations: automobile standards, bans on food additives, etc. Although we quarrel about particular instances, only libertarian cranks reject in principle the idea that government sometimes should protect people from themselves. But it is no more dangerous to sell one of your kidneys than it is to give one away to a close relative -- a transaction we not only allow but admire. On health grounds alone, you can't ban the sale without banning the gift as well. Furthermore, the sale of a kidney is not necessarily a foolish decision that...
Credit also belongs to Jewett and masters who lately decided to down the faulty plan--notably so far Mather and Dunster House masters--for listening to house committees and house-based objectors. The administrators' decision to pull out of participation was a fair and rational choice to reject a proposal whose implementation contradicted its purported aims...
Despite Bentsen's pledge of support, Mitchell repeated his claim that the full Senate will reject the nomination, and he led a chorus of Democrats who called for a quick vote to end the rancorous debate that dragged on for the fifth...
...went to Japan for the funeral of Emperor Hirohito, Bush suffered a slap from which not even the 6,800 miles between Washington and Tokyo could remove the sting. Disregarding fervent pleas by the President, the Senate Armed Services Committee voted 11 to 9 along strict party lines to reject his nomination of former Senator John Tower to be Secretary of Defense. The main reason: Democrats on the committee said they could not accept the Administration's claims that Tower had shaken the excessive drinking habits he displayed in the 1970s...