Word: reject
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Drexler said he thought the Faculty Council would reject the present constitution because the convention has been "too idealistic" in modifying the Dowling Report...
...might be shaped primarily by Congress, as it was in the late 1970s. In a significant political coup, Reagan last year overrode legislative machinery that Congress had designed specifically to give itself permanent control of the budget process. For the moment at least, dazed lawmakers will have to accept, reject or amend presidential proposals rather than enact their own. The President's triumph was the latest skirmish in a seesaw struggle over spending that has gone on since the founding days of the Republic, even though Article I of the Constitution theoretically gives Congress primary power over the federal...
...commission, which is empowered only to block the demolition of historically significant structures, had no authority to reject Harvard's proposal to leave the building at 134 Mt. Auburn St. undisturbed at its present location and to at least temporarily relocate within the neighborhood the house at 3 Mt. Auburn Place...
COMMON SENSE and moral intuition, which confirm so much of what Posner says about economic science and its relation to ethics, reject his optimistic assessment of freedom of information and prejudice. Bigotry survives, economic cost regardless, and probably will continue for along, long time. As approximations go, rationality has served the world of economists well, but so have fairies and demons the world of storytellers. Certain remembrances of the real world might be only the tiniest grain of salt that readers need to take Posner's theories...
Liberal Marxists like Roy Medvedev, a Soviet historian who is frequently harassed by the authorities, indignantly reject the suggestion that Marxism was in any sense to blame for the terrors of Stalinism. But it is hard to deny that Marxism-particularly as interpreted by Lenin-provided many of the concepts, attitudes and institutions that made Stalinism possible. Ex-Communists such as Arthur Koestler, author of the famous anti-Stalinist novel Darkness at Noon, have argued persuasively that Communism is corrupt and corrupting because of the brutal way that power is often attained and maintained. As the absolute embodiment of both...