Word: reject
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Albania's leader since 1944, who died last week from heart disease at 76. For more than 40 years Hoxha kept his tiny country on what he considered the only true path to Communism: self-reliance, total party control and a suspicion of outsiders that led him to reject both the U.S. and the Soviet Union and to feud with China and Yugoslavia. He summed up his view of his country in 1967, when he banned all religious activities: "The only religion an Albanian needs is Albania...
...Advocates Reject Bias Charge...
...physical predisposition toward risk taking and says a few studies of identical twins support the notion. Another psychologist, Marvin Zuckerman of the University of Delaware, also proffers a physical explanation: Zuckerman says sensation seekers may have distinctly different brain chemistry. Despite their various emphases, researchers in the field generally reject the idea that risk takers are acting compulsively out of a neurotic need or a desire to solve a psychological problem...
...fees that can hit $225 an hour, the specialists try to create a complete image--from corporate hairstyle to speech--for the ambitious man or woman who is still a few tantalizing rungs from the top. Self-styled "wardrobe engineers" advise men to discard cheap ties and reject anything in polyester. Women executives are cautioned to button up at the collar and resist the current custom of walking into the office in running shoes...
Arms-control advocates, church groups and nuclear-freeze organizations reject the President's reasoning, and they mounted an intense campaign to turn wavering Senators against the MX. Florida Senator Paula Hawkins, for example, received some 1,500 pieces of mail, largely against the missile, in the three days before the vote. For its part, the Administration enlisted its entire legislative affairs staff, Cabinet secretaries and notables like Henry Kissinger to argue its cause. Said one White House staffer: "We just could not afford to lose...