Word: reject
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Meese's implausible assertions epitomize the ad hoc nature of the rationalizations usually offered in support of state-sanctioned murder. Normally, one could reject remarks like these as unfounded yet insignificant in comparison with more substantive views on the issue. But like it or not, Meese is the attorney general, and one cannot cursorily dismiss his views on capital punishment as having no bearing on the administration of "justice" in the United States...
...staff of The Crimson voted last night to reject an ad submitted by Playboy, soliciting women to pose for the magazine's Women of the Ivy League feature...
Item: U.S. fear at alienating its NATO allies may cause Reagan to reject a promising Soviet offer to eliminate intermediate-range nuclear missiles from Europe. The proposal, which will probably be ignored, was made more enticing after Mikhail Gorbachev recently told a visiting Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 that a European-arena agreement would not be tied to Star Wars...
...federal spending that is not exempt. If a Supreme Court decision prevents those cuts from being put into effect automatically, they would have to be embodied in a joint resolution brought up for a straight yes-or-no vote within one week. Congress could reject the resolution, or the President could veto it, but they would still be under pressure to cut spending lest they be accused of dereliction of duty by permitting the deficit to go on growing. Said Rudman: "The fallback procedure, I believe, will work--not with the certainty of the original (automatic) provision, but it will...
Still, the way the boosters continued flying after the explosion prompted some experts to reject the likelihood of a burnthrough in either one. Hurled away from the exploding external tank, both rockets appeared to be moving rather stably, producing the awesome Y-shaped pattern that millions of Americans will never forget. A burnthrough on the side of the casing, several rocket specialists say, would have sent the booster cartwheeling wildly through space. Bob Truax, a retired engineer who directed the Thor missile program in the 1950s, agrees. "After the explosion, they were continuing on a fairly normal trajectory," he says...