Word: reject
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wish more colleges would do that--it would make things much easier down here," says Lawrence S. Zaglaniczny, an American Council on Education congressional liaison. The step-up occurred, he adds, because while "in the two years before the election it was virtually a foregone conclusion that Congress would reject any aid cuts, with the president's mandate it was much more serious...
...name from Vincent Leaphart to John Africa and gave his surname to all his followers, Move professes to be a back-to-nature movement but has always struck outsiders as an exotic cult enamored of rancid, anarchic practices. Membership has probably never exceeded 100. Move has pretended to reject modern technology, but has embraced it readily enough in the form of weapons. Move's beliefs have never seemed quite comprehensible, manifested as they are in an unfocused principle that natural processes should not be disturbed. Translated, that means anything from eating raw meat to forgoing artificial heat...
Treadup's Christian faith suffers in China, but only in the sense that he comes to reject his mission as simply signing up souls for Christ. When he arrives as a young man the motto is "Evangelize the world in this generation." After 40 years of rebellions, war, Japanese internment and Communist revolution, his ambition has shrunk to feeding the few people left in his village...
...just off Sloane Square, about half the customers are Americans. They spend an average of $245 each on such items as a pastel flowered frock ($43) or a cotton sweater ($37)--about a third to a half the prices in Ashley's U.S. branches. Tourists crowding into the china-reject shops in Knightsbridge find a five-piece place setting of Royal Worcester's Evesham for $26, Baccarat crystal wineglasses...
While Gorbachev's tactics last week somewhat flummoxed the Administration, the impact in Europe was muted. The center-left French daily Le Monde headlined its story A SETBACK FOR GORBACHEV: EUROPEANS REJECT THE MISSILE MORATORIUM. As usual, Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was quick to line up with Reagan. Said she: "The place for negotiations was across the table in Geneva, not in the pages of newspapers." A few peace groups took heart from Gorbachev's message, but even some of them seemed disappointed. Said Pierre Galand, head of a Belgian organization opposed to nuclear weapons: "The moratorium...