Word: reject
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Racism is the child of ignorance, of gross generalizations and oversimplifications, of labelling and stereotyping individuals Professor Kilson is guilty of such generalizations. For him there exist two types of Black students, "parochial," and "cosmopolitans," the former being wrong and the latter right. We reject this artificial dichotomy. What Professor Kilson denigrates as parochial, we celebrate as the much needed expression of the beauty of our culturally diverse Harvard community...
...criticizing the U.S.) I make a sharp distinction between the American people and the policies of American governments. I reject the label anti-American...
After receiving Mandela's rejection last week, Botha closed the door on the issue. "My government's and my attitude on this matter flows on the one hand from a concern for men who have spent a long time in prison," he said. "On the other hand, we cannot order their release if they remain committed to violence, sabotage and terrorism." Critics questioned Botha's motives, suggesting that he had acted to get into the open the issue of the A.N.C.'s advocacy of violent change. Asked the Rand Daily Mail: "Was it a ploy, couched in such terms that...
Many farmers admit that they plunged too heavily into debt in the heyday of the 1970s, planting their fields from fence post to fence post. But they argue that that was precisely what federal bureaucrats and local bankers urged them to do. They reject the argument of Budget Director David Stockman that they are to blame for their troubles. "I'd like to get about 15 minutes behind the barn with that dude," says Tom Kersey, 45, a Georgia farmer who helped lead "tractorcade" protests to Washington...
Indeed, it seems likely that the pivotal figure in this year's battle of the budget will be not the President but the Secretary of Defense. It was Weinberger who persuaded Reagan to reject pleas that the Administration pare its military-spending requests sharply before presenting them to Congress. Consequently, the man once known as Cap the Knife (when he was President Nixon's Budget Director) has become the target of congressional budget cutters. After a meeting last week at which Republican Senators could not get the Secretary to yield a dollar, Mark Hatfield of Oregon termed Weinberger "a draft...