Word: reject
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...committees" to pump money illegally into his campaign. The 130 groups, organized by local supporters seeking to become convention delegates, claimed that they were independent of the Mondale organization and thus exempt both from federal limits on national campaign contributions and from the candidate's own pledge to reject money from Political Action Committees. Hart's success in turning the tactic into a campaign issue forced Mondale to disband the committees last April...
Councilor Alice K. Wolf also expressed hope the council would reject the contract...
...unimportant or as already hopeless. Implying that he is dealing with a new phenomenon, Lasch skirts the issue of historical depth. He is justly disturbed by the fact that the language and imagery of concentration camps has penetrated ordinary life. He thinks that to emphasize survivial alone and to reject self-sacrifice is despicable. But this judgement is qualified by his concession that "Contemporary politics to be sure, provides an substance of realistic reasons for regarding sacrifice in this light." He agrees with the goals of the antiwar and environmental movements, but feels that they "appeal to some...
Triage is the French military term for the battlefront procedure by which overworked surgeons reject some casualties as too lightly wounded to require treatment, reject others as too badly wounded to be saved, and concentrate their limited resources on the remainder. No matter how it is done, triage is a cruel procedure, perhaps an immoral one, but generally recognized as necessary...
Nwither Mudge nor Brigham and Women's heart surgeon and Professor of Surgery Nicolas L. Tilney '58 could say why Bouener continued to reject his heart in spite of treatment with sophisticated immunosupressant drugs...