Word: reject
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Hart did not seem anxious to pave the way for party unity when he appeared in Washington before Ferraro's platform committee. Although Hart did not mention Mondale, he urged the committee to reject "the traditional approach of some in our party who promise everything to everyone." He warned that "the Democratic Party cannot win if it is beholden to the old arrangements." Specifically, Hart opposed "a protectionist trade policy based on the proposed domestic content bill," which would require a share of American materials and labor in autos sold in the U.S. Mondale has firmly endorsed such legislation...
...President has little room to waffle. According to law, the ITC must make its recommendations by late July, and the President must decide whether to approve, reject or modify its proposals by the end of September...
...issue of credibility that the University's efforts appear to be flagging. Skepticism arose during the handling of the Dominguez case; it became more widespread as the results of the survey became known; and, for some at least, gained a bitter edge with the Faculty Council's decision to reject the proposal for a general harassment policy and central office. "They're saying, 'We're giving you an opportunity to trust us,' and not giving us any reason to trust them," said Joseph P. DiNunzio '84, one of the authors of the harassment survey. "I don't trust them, given...
...hatred many of us felt for Harvard led us to reject entirely the idea of the University, of scholarship, of study. Yet at the same time, there were books that we wanted desperately to read, and which I, at least, could not understand alone. I remember trying to acquire on my own a certain philosophical culture, and how frantic and depressed I became at my failure. What we needed and wanted, in the end, was not less University but more. Our most serious failing was not to have recognized that, and not to have used our momentum...
Shortly before the Weinberger incident. Cambridge voters voted on a proposal that would ban nuclear weapons research within city limits. Luckily, city citizens had the good sense to reject the "Nuclear-Free Cambridge" referendum, which would have sent at best an ambiguous message about the nuclear arms race while clamping down on traditional university norms of free and open inquiry. And several months later, members of the Right showed, not surprisingly, that the Left had no monopoly on improper attempts to subvert free and open inquiry. Harvard and other universities that get money from the Pentagon for research have been...