Word: reject
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cynical. His American diplomat is stuffy, didactic, socially inept but fervently idealistic about averting a nuclear horror. The two grow close, if not quite friendly, in their occasional walks between formal negotiations. The Soviet is able to be blunt when he explains to the American why the Kremlin must reject what both sides agree is a fair and useful arms-control plan: "We don't trust...
Judges Norris and Canby refuted some commonly cited reasons for excluding gays, including hostility from other soldiers and a threat to morale. Wrote Norris: "Even granting special deference to the policy choices of the military, we must reject many of the Army's asserted justifications because they illegitimately cater to private biases." Judge Stephen Reinhardt dissented, arguing that he was bound by earlier cases, but denounced antigay laws and regulations and predicted some precedents would one day be overturned. "Were I free to apply my own view" of the Constitution, he wrote, "I too would conclude that the Army...
Last October, the Reagan Administration decided to reject Rubin's new statistical methods and will not adjust the 1990 census data. James Gorman, a spokesman for the Department of Commerce, which oversees the Census Bureau, explains, the "point was that the Census Bureau would be open to the accusation that it was manipulating figures. Also, no one was sure if [the new technique] would be operational by 1990. Some people say it's not possible to take an accurate survey of 300,000 after the 1990 census and to give it to the president, according...
...admitted here have shown that they can lead publications or play varsity sports in addition to becoming Marshall scholars. But all the statistics show that Asians are overrepresented in sciencerelated fields. If the Committee seeks a diverse student body and not just one filled with scientists, then it should reject those candidates that have nothing else to offer. If all caucasians were interested solely in the Classics, the Committee should not accept them all either...
...assault gave Israeli officials one more reason to reject the possibility of pursuing peace talks with the P.L.O.'s Yasser Arafat. But beyond the policy of beatings, Israeli officials offered no new ideas for dealing with Palestinian unrest. Shimon Peres, the Labor Party leader and Foreign Minister in the national unity government, suggested that the elections scheduled for November be moved up in hopes of producing a government better able to deal with the crisis. Predictably, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, head of the right-wing Likud bloc, rejected the idea, saying it "would weaken our standing in the eyes...