Word: reject
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...cleric took over after his more moderate predecessor, Aslan Maskhadov, was killed in March. Since then, the tone and tactics of the conflict have taken a firmly radical turn. Rebel leaders go beyond criticizing the West's failure to denounce Russia's brutal tactics in Chechnya; they increasingly reject Western values based, they say, on "materialism and atheism." A "discussion document" circulating among Chechen guerrillas singles out Afghanistan's Taliban regime as the most theologically consistent modern Islamic state. The Islamist cast of the Nalchik attackers suggests that Russian President Vladimir Putin now faces a growing threat from religious radicals...
...last spring when dozens of prospective students, tipped off by an online hacker, tried to gain unauthorized access to a website detailing their admissions status at HBS as well as at five other top business schools.Less than a week after the breaches became public, HBS decided it would categorically reject all 119 applicants who had attempted to check their admissions status—a move that some critics called unduly harsh.“This behavior is unethical at best—a serious breach of trust that can not be countered by rationalization,” Clark wrote...
...years spent in Sachs’ laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital, where Sachs is the director of the Transplantation Biology Research Center. The result is a revealing look at Sachs’ attempts to transplant organs from pigs into baboons, hoping that if a baboon won’t reject the organ, humans won’t either. And this is where Sachs’ research efforts lie: investigating new ways to prevent baboons’ immune systems from attacking the foreign organs, a task that comes with painstakingly slow progress...
...other places, like HoCos (which were each eligible for $6,000 from the UC last year) and concerts.But as important as slowing down the expansion of student groups seems, it is hard to put into practice. It’s difficult for the College to find grounds to reject students hoping to form official groups. It can set the bar high for new group proposals, and suggest that people work within existing groups, but that’s about it.Still, there are ways to stem the spread of student groups by incentivizing cooperation between student groups and even encouraging them...
...percent of all trees harvested in Canada in 2000 were used to produce lumber to build homes.” The second half of the event—focused on arctic oil drilling—was run by the EAC as part of a national campaign urging Congress to reject the fiscal year 2006 budget reconciliation bill. The reconciliation bill, which would open the ANWR to oil drilling, has already been passed by both the House of Representatives and Senate in slightly different versions. It has since been referred to a conference committee. “We?...