Word: reject
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pandemonium breaks out in the Senate Caucus Room as the Judiciary Committee members jump up and down on their chairs giving the bewildered Judge Reinhold the raspberry. Once again, the Senate has affirmed its Constitutional right to confirm, reject or tease a Presidential nominee to the Supreme Court...
Shari Aigner, an administrator of the Denver-based Independent Relocation Consultants Association, says that of the working couples who use her organization's services, "one in five reject transfers because the trailing spouse cannot find a job." Companies in Dayton and the Raleigh-Durham, N.C., area are now providing information about job openings to help overcome such difficulties...
...about Jose Happart, the acting mayor of Les Fourons, a small French-speaking town in Dutch-speaking Flanders. Happart refuses to take a Dutch-language competency test to prove his compliance with a law requiring that public officials conduct business in the language of ^ their regions. French speakers reject the Flemish court ruling that introduced the competency tests; Dutch speakers want Happart removed from office...
...hotel in their underwear, the San Francisco players contemplated the fates. In August, after four straight games lost in the opponent's last at-bat, the Giants were five behind Cincinnati and facing a four-game Reds series and maybe the end. But Pitcher Mike LaCoss, a Reds reject, shut Cincinnati down in the first game, and Atlee Hammaker, Mike Krukow and Kelly Downs followed suit. Adding the old sinker baller Rick Reuschel for seasoning, the Giants pulled away...
...aggressor before it will agree to a U.N. resolution to end hostilities. There is no guarantee of the outcome of such an inquiry, even though Iraq's 1980 invasion of Iran triggered the war. In the event that the probe failed to blame Iraq, Iran would almost certainly reject it and continue the fight...