Word: reject
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that can happen to a progressive cause at Harvard is for the University to establish a committee to look into it. The Committee that examined the issue of a Third World Center was a committee to find any alternative. The committee on special concentrations is essentially a committee to reject special concentrations. So when the University established a committee on women's studies, if should have been obvious that women's studies was really no closer to reality...
...born again" and go to heaven. The faith's rulers, among whom Raymond Franz was once numbered, come from this elite. The "other sheep" who are loyal to the Watch Tower are promised an earthly paradise. Jehovah will shortly annihilate the rest of the human race. The dissenters reject this class system. They contend that the figure of 144,000 is symbolic and that all believers since Christ's day will go to heaven...
...dissenters, in other words, have moved toward conventional Christianity, except for continuing to reject Christ's divinity. For his part, Franz has not become a bitter Watch Tower antagonist. "There is no life outside the organization" is all he will say about the pain of his shunning. But other ex-Witnesses have launched a barrage of protests, publications and lawsuits. These dissidents contend that roughly 1 million people have left the Watch Tower ranks over the past decade. The Witnesses report that they are still growing, thanks to nonstop recruiting. Still, that success may not go on for long...
...call for isolationism. The West must expand trade and undertake a meaningful dialogue with the Eastern Bloc if it is to have any positive influence at all. Ultimately, though tangible reform will only come from within. Solidarity is proof that the peoples of Eastern Europe are beginning to openly reject their system; it is tragic that it was a movement born perhaps a generation too soon...
...only as a last resort in desegregation cases. But as legal analysts like Archibald Cox, Loeb Professor of Law, have frequently pointed out of late, congressional infringement on the powers of the courts sets a dangerous--and quite possibly unconstitutional-precedent. We urge Congress to avoid it--and to reject Helms's please to hamstring the third branch of government...