Word: reject
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...Democratic Party that is steeped in the status quo,” he said. “You mean Hillary?” shouted one person from the crowd. “No, because it’s more extensive than that,” he responded. Obama did reject what he called one of the prevailing arguments against him, asserting that he is capable of taking on the Republican nominee in the general election. “Their ideas are bankrupt right now,” he said of the Republican primary field. “Scooter Libby justice...
...Shareholder's did what shareholders almost always do: they went for the highest bidder, on Jan. 8 voting to reject Singapore's overture. This cleared the way for CNAC to sweeten the pot. But while the vote may have seemed like the free market at work, the Chinese government isn't about to let the invisible hand shape its air travel industry. By green-lighting CNAC's $1.9 billion hostile bid, Beijing actually steered the proceedings toward what it really wants: by consolidating China's fledgling and fragmented airline industry, regulators aim to form a Chinese "supercarrier" capable of competing...
...that time of the month. The undergraduates are at it again—frantically browning their noses, that is—and no combination of office hours, extensions, and reference letters will shut them up. There’s a growing stack of graduate school applications to reject, and the wannabes that have already gotten through are hard-pressed to tie their own shoelaces, let alone grade exams, without professional help. The kids are back in school—thank God—but the damned hybrid doesn’t handle well in the snow.And you expect...
...Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, in which a prehistoric beast is roused by atomic tests to terrorize New York City) told in the style of, and with the characters from, The Blair Witch Project (but with a lot less internal cohesion; this could be called "The Blair Witch Reject"). The State of Liberty head comes from the poster for John Carpenter's Escape from New York (though that shot is not in the film). The little crab creatures are like the toy meanies in Gremlins. And when the main monster opens its mouth, you pretty much know there...
...emphatically reject that notion,” wrote the administrators, who are provosts from schools such as the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. “Collectively, our institutions educate more than 380,000 students, produce 1 in every 8 American PhDs, and conduct more than $4.5 billion worth of research every year...