Word: reject
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...Soviet reaction was a blend of disapproval and curiosity. The Kremlin had summarily rejected in 1977 a proposal by Carter and Vance for deep reductions in the strategic arsenals of both nations. But Vance said last week that some Soviet officials have told him their unwillingness to consider the plan may have been a mistake. Despite the sharp criticism of Reagan's speech by the official news agency TASS, the Kremlin so far has kept the door open to discussion. Radomir Bogdanov, a Soviet arms-control specialist who is deputy director of Moscow's Institute...
Finally, Ms. Brown seeks to discomfort me with an analogy between gays and Blacks, which totally reject. None would suggest that changes in the environment could give anyone a choice as to his or her race, and neither science nor the sum of human experience provide any basis for valuing one race above another. If Ms. Brown understands this distinction I think it is wrong for her to invoke an identity between gays and Blacks simply because both groups have been subjected to unfair discrimination. E.L. Pattullo...
Argentina might well have had something like that in mind. The first response from Buenos Aires was to reject the Peruvian proposal out of hand. Then the junta seemed to reconsider. But on Wednesday, the Argentines informed Secretary-General Pérez de Cuéllar that they were examining the U.N. peace proposals with, as he put it, "great interest and a sense of urgency." A Foreign Ministry statement also declared that "the first step toward a solution must be an immediate cease-fire." There was no mention of military withdrawal. Britain's insistence on the opposite course...
Curiously, Engelmayer would have us excuse Pattullo's bigotry by thanking him for his honesty. This suggestion we reject as thoroughly as we do Pattullo's condescending, pity. Considering the precarious position of lesbian and gay students, research, and teaching--how many gay studies courses are there at Harvard?--Engelmayer's concern would be more justifiably focussed on the chilling effects of unrefuted bigotry than on the pitfalls of discouraging future bigots from revealing themselves. J. French Wall '83 GSA President Lenathan I. Handel '83 GSA Vice President
...explained that Cambridge was the first city in the nation to reject civil defense evacuation plans proposed last year and that the council had passed a resolution favoring a nuclear weapons freeze. He also noted that the council had sent a telegram to President Reagan expressing concern over nuclear proliferation and support for disarmament...