Word: reject
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week's outburst, both nations were eyeing each other more warily. Iranian authorities nervously tried to squelch rumors that the Soviet embassy in Tehran would be seized, as its U.S. counterpart had been in November 1979. The Soviet party newspaper Pravda vigorously asserted that the Soviet people "resolutely reject" the charges against the Tudeh. The article went on to argue, speciously, that the Tudeh was unlikely to know any important secrets and, disingenuously, that the U.S. had instigated the sudden crackdown...
Other magazine and book publishers reject the writers' proposals as unjustified because freelancers are self-employed. Indeed, the new group's Manhattan-based consulting attorney, Lewis Steel, concedes, "The National Labor Relations Board may not recognize the union. But it still has the right to bargain...
Both Perle and the State Department's Burt stated flatly that the U.S. at Geneva will reject any proposal that envisions abandoning the Pershing II. The missile has been the principal target of a massive Soviet propaganda campaign, which charges that the Pershing II, with a six-minute flight time from West Germany to its Soviet target, would give the West a first-strike nuclear capability...
...return of Palestinian guerrillas and to protect northern Israel from cross-border attacks, but they disagree on the details. The Israelis maintain that their soldiers should be free to accompany their Lebanese counterparts on patrol, with the right to conduct man hunts, property searches and identity checks. The Lebanese reject that demand and instead insist that the Israelis be allowed to take part only in "joint supervisory teams," with no military or police powers whatsoever. The Israelis, moreover, want the Lebanese force along the border to be under the control of Major Saad Haddad, a renegade Lebanese army officer whose...
...military intervention in Central America. We reject the idea. Our position is a symmetrical one. We oppose intervention by the U.S. and by any other country. The solution for us is the suspension of all forms of military intervention by all parties. It seems to me that intelligent action may assure the nationalist character of the revolutionary movements of Central America. If we have peace in the region we can build economic and social development on the basis of the peace...