Word: reject
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Despite the considerable partisanship�that existed at the time, equally as bad as today's, Kennedy reached across party lines and appointed Republicans C. Douglas Dillon as Secretary of the Treasury and Robert McNamara as Secretary of Defense. If the Democrats capture the presidency in 2008, they must reject the current Administration's extreme partisanship and adopt J.F.K.'s bipartisan approach...
...year-old Muslim may have a way to go before reaching the musician-statesman stature of Bono, but he is talking the talk. "Warriors of Love is a song about love and tolerance for people of different faiths," he explains. "We reject the teachings of hate and the extremists who preach it." Some of his backers hope to widen the song's appeal by assembling a multilingual Muslim star cast to render it as a kind of We Are the World anthem of global Islamic moderation...
This notion that men and women are genetically, or even culturally, predisposed to different parenting roles strikes other researchers as misguided. They are quick to reject the idea that there is some link between X or Y chromosomes and, say, conditional or unconditional love. "To take something that is only a statistical tendency," says historian E. Anthony Rotundo, "and turn it into a cultural imperative -- fathers must do it this way and mothers must do it that way -- only creates problems for the vast number of people who don't fit those tendencies, without benefiting the children at all." While...
Social Studies has a cache to it, and some seniors have told me that they didn’t know what to do and they chose Social Studies because of its prestige.” She added, “Social Studies is a major commitment. We reject a few students—a very few—because of their academic record, but it’s really an issue of students’ ability to commit to the concentration.” Committee Chair and Thomson Professor of Government Richard Tuck also said, “We need...
...them immigration is the No. 1 issue." McCain, a co-author of the compromise legislation, is alone among the front-runners for the G.O.P. nomination who supports it. In his speech, McCain took a careful shot at his fellow candidates critical of the measure, asserting that those who reject his compromise, "especially if they are a candidate for President... should have the responsibility and courage to propose another way." He added pointedly: "To want the office so badly that you would intentionally make our country's problems worse might prove you can read a poll or take a cheap shot...