Word: reject
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...much as $600 million may have been spent so far on the peace offensive. Using national Communist parties or recognized Communist-front organizations like the World Peace Council, the Kremlin has been able to channel funds to a host of new antiwar organizations that would, in many cases, reject the financial help if they knew the source. Western intelligence experts believe that the mass movement in opposition to new NATO missiles in Europe probably was not Soviet-inspired, but they fear that the Kremlin's active measures have given the movement greater momentum...
Even some of the President's aides consider the proposal for stand-by tax increases to be a "Rube Goldberg" scheme that the legislature will reject. The tax-writing committees of Congress are loath to let the President specify the conditions under which levies should be raised. Republicans Robert Dole of Kansas, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and Barber Conable of New York, a tax expert in the House, put their opposition on the record last week. Many Congressmen and Senators also feel that a plan to raise taxes only if certain conditions prevail is inadequate. They will...
...Governor's budget proposals to be announced this week were expected to avoid any tax hike and to close the deficit partly by borrowing $700 million from next year's budget-a delaying tactic that the Democratic-controlled legislature seems likely to reject. If there are to be new taxes, Deukmejian seems determined to force the Democrats to propose them...
State Department officials are worried that the same thing might happen if the U.S. takes an unbending stance. In their view, the pressure of the European antinuclear movement will force governments that now want U.S. missiles to reject them unless Washington can show that it is making an all-out effort to achieve agreement with the Soviets...
...White House would be to instruct Nitze to reject the Andropov offer but press for clarification, explanation and possible modifications. That, however, would only postpone the hard decision on whether or when to make a counterproposal...