Word: reject
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...Prime Minister, who urged voters to reject the amendment, the issue is filled with irony. Three elections ago, FitzGerald let the genie out of the bottle when he told the pro-life group that an abortion amendment "was an integral part of our program." Two governments later, his Fein Gael Party drafted a proposed amendment, only to have it rejected by coalition dissidents in favor of an alternative advanced by the Fianna Fáil opposition. All the while, the struggle between the pro-and antiabortion lobbies took on a strongly religious character. Groups of nuns distributed pro-life literature...
With social unrest growing, the Brazilian Congress seems increasingly likely to reject a presidential decree that, beginning last month, limited cost-of-living wage hikes for all Brazilian workers to 80% of increases in the consumer price index. The IMF had demanded such action as a precondition for further loans. Without such a law, the battle against inflation seems doomed. So far this year the price of bread has gone up 85%, rice 151%, beans 369% and potatoes 498%. Indeed, it may take another Brazilian economic miracle like the one in the 1970s for the country to reduce inflation...
...nurturing mother is as important as psychiatrists say, hired substitutes may seem a poor alternative, but most psychological researchers reject any such conclusion. All a baby basically needs, they say, is at least someone who is consistently there and who really cares. All depends, obviously, on the quality of the day care-and of the home. In the case of the Milwaukee experiment with the potentially retarded, day care was a rescue service. But in one typical Maryland county, 788 regulated day care facilities have room for only 8,560 of the 65,000 children under 14 who have working...
...getting increased attention from politicians, the public and some key educators, including Anthony Alvarado, the newly appointed chancellor of New York City's schools. The A.F.T. has been quietly debating the pros and cons of merit pay for several months, realizing that it could not just flatly reject the concept in today's charged atmosphere. As a result, Reagan complimented the A.F.T. for "its fair and open-minded approach to other potential means of encouraging good teaching and good teachers." Another speaker at the A.F.T. convention was Tennessee's Governor Lamar Alexander, a Republican, who has proposed...
Another issue which city leaders spend a lot of time on is nuclear arms. The city was among the first to reject the federal government's civil defense plans, and to support the nuclear freeze. A proposal on the November ballot would prevent any nuclear weapons research from being conducted in the city...