Word: reject
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Karpov and his colleagues went to Geneva last week with instructions to reject in the strongest terms the propositions on which the President's START proposal is based. But the Reaganauts are not likely to abandon their proposal so quickly as the Carterites did in 1977 when their own deep-cuts plan was rudely thrown back in Cyrus Vance's face. This Administration is ready, if not eager, to engage in some serious, protracted stonewalling of its own at the disarmament talks in Geneva while it sells the American public on the need for massive rearmament...
...last week's budget resolution. Unlike 1981, when all the cuts were rolled into a single up-or-down vote, politically sensitive programs like Medicare and food stamps will this time have to be voted on one by one. In the House, Democratic committee chairmen are expected to reject cuts in their own budgetary areas, and even Republicans are reluctant to risk election-year charges of being insensitive to the poor...
...Food and Commercial Workers Union has charged the Coop with offering employees bonuses during the unionization drive to influence them to reject outside representation. The union also says the store management harassed and interrogated some employees...
...senior diplomat in Washington quickly dismissed the study as "garbage." Said State Department Spokesman Alan Romberg: "We reject the charge that the U.S. was party to any fraud. Nor did any of those countless observers on the site of the elections suggest there was fraud." Romberg cited as a "key error" the claim that it took voters 2½ to three minutes each to cast their ballots. A more likely estimate, he said, ranged between 30 seconds and one minute...
Saying she had called and visited Harvard several times to try and get housing before she finally decided to reject admission. Greenberg said she "couldn't just sit around all summer without some kind of security...