Word: reject
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would take a strong character to reject it," conceded George McGovern, whose 1972 Democratic presidential campaign was the object of a few Watergate dirty tricks. "I'm not going to say what I would have done. I will say that I hope I would have said 'No-we don't resort to that stuff around here. Send it back.' But I don't know...
Labor and environmental leaders rightly reject these alterations. They say that the 400 most hazardous substances form only the tip of a toxic ice burg. They claim the proposed legislation is not unreasonable since employers would only have to supply standard information on hazardous chemicals--information that is already required by the federal government and often provided by chemical companies to firms that use their products. Furthermore, advocates of the more stringent bill argue that the law will not be unduly expensive to regulate since it only mandates enforcement in response to a complaint...
...take themselves too seriously, though on occasion Zaremba will launch into some sort of diatribe about the state of America. This is the Fleshtones at their worst, the tepid liberalism of 1981's "R-I-G-T-S"--off Roman Gods--or Hexbreaker's "New Scene": "Phony society, we reject your false values." Ho hum. "Get off my back. Let me do what I wanna do." So what...
...State Department moved to counter criticism that the U.S. is too closely aligned to the all-white regime. In what was billed as a major policy speech, Under Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger firmly denounced South Africa's political system as "morally wrong." Said he: "We must reject the legal and political premises and consequences of apartheid...
When the Soviets first reacted to Reagan's speech, through the official news agency, TASS, it was with the customary assertions that the U.S. aims at "gaining military superiority and pressing the Soviet Union into unilateral disarmament." The Soviet response, however, did not reject the new proposals outright. Indeed, some Western diplomats in Moscow feel that the Soviets may be grudgingly prepared to make a deal, if not on START, at least on the issue of limiting intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe...