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...central tenet of Sachs' advice has been to reject policy formulated by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), a group of 182 countries whose purpose is to promote global financial stability through such activities as money lending and financial policy review...
Real life is much more complicated. After all, how many of us, while debating the meaning of an author's work, actually can summon the author at the snap of our fingertips to resolve the dispute? Alternatively, how many of us have ever had an author explicitly reject our interpretation of his or her ideas...
...find the "any interpretation is valid" argument convincing. There are instances when, as Woody Allen memorably shows us, we simply are wrong. I recognize, of course, that Ellison didn't reject my argument in the way McLuhan rejected the professor's; while "no conscious reference to Garvey" may have been intended, Ellison did considerately leave the realm of his unconscious wide open to academic scrutiny. Unfortunately, I'm no psychoanalyst...
Eisenhower entreated Americans to reject apathy, saying, "My biggest disappointment is that we haven't expressed more sympathy and empathy here in the West toward this impossible situation...
...tendons, nerves and veins. The physicians were competing with surgeons in Louisville, Ky., who went out on a limb in July when they announced that they expected to perform the first such operation by year's end. It remains to be seen whether the patient's body will reject the transplant. Even then, it could be a year or more before he gains enough control over his new limb to shake his doctors' hands...