Word: reject
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...third suggestion, the Overpowering Assumption, I think is the best: but not for the reasons he suggests--that the assumption is so cosmic it may sometimes be accepted. It is rarely "accepted"; we aren't here to accept or reject, we're here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we like to be called "assistants," not "graders"--you may be able to ferret...
...Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has not wanted to push the quarrel any further, though. Sounded out privately two weeks ago by Washington about sending minesweepers to the gulf, she politely said no. Thatcher reportedly was furious when U.S. Ambassador Charles Price formally repeated the same request, forcing her to reject the U.S. again, this time in public. Thatcher has added reason to look askance at the highly publicized American escort operation: London has quietly escorted British tankers through gulf waters for the past six years...
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger began his testimony last Friday by declaring that he once believed his repeated advice to the President to reject the Iranian arms deals had succeeded in having "this baby strangled in its cradle." He cited a fundamental flaw in the effort to reach out to Iranian moderates. Said the Secretary: "I didn't think there were any moderates still alive in Iran." Astonishingly, Weinberger had to learn details of the Iran initiative from another country's intelligence reporting...
...independent-minded as Volcker was. During Greenspan's confirmation hearing July 21, a questioner asked the conservative nominee whether he might succumb to "muscle" from the White House to stimulate the economy with an easy-money policy as the 1988 elections drew near. Greenspan responded that he "obviously would reject" any such pressure and declared the Fed's political independence to be "terribly critical." He has little choice, moneymen say. "His life will be very difficult if he is perceived as someone who will play politics. He has got to impress ((central bankers)) abroad, and the way to do that...
...Lake Michigan shoreline and a band blared campaign-style tunes. In nearby West Bend (pop. 21,000), some 30,000 people turned out to welcome the presidential motorcade. Buoyed by the lively response, Ronald Reagan scoffed at critics who claim he has lost his political punch. Said he: "I reject a potted-plant presidency...