Word: rejecting
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...Cheney's remark prompted response from within the increasingly restive Republican Party. "People should feel comfortable about expressing their opinions about Iraq," Bush told White House reporters in Beijing. "I heard somebody say, 'Well, maybe so-and-so is not patriotic because they disagree with my position. I totally reject that thought. This is not an issue of who's [a] patriot and who's not patriotic. It's an issue of an honest, open debate about the way forward in Iraq...
...where it is hard to avoid televised poker tournaments, the DOJ is unequivocal: it deems Internet gambling illegal, period. And nearly unstoppable. The DOJ admits that it faces hurdles in bringing to heel companies not based in the U.S. But it has pressured credit-card companies to reject gaming-related transactions and "urged" Internet providers and radio stations not to air online-gambling ads. Yahoo! and Viacom's Infinity Broadcasting are just some of those that are complying rather than cross the feds...
...it’s moments like these when we have to wonder if our newfound ability to reject such suitors with a mere click of a mouse means we must wholly renounce the traditional rule-book on love? Have these technological advances ultimately made our mothers’ manual of manners obsolete...
...emergency contraceptive, or “morning-after pill,” that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) deemed unfit for over-the-counter distribution last May. The Government Accountability Office (GAO), a nonpartisan investigative subsidiary group of Congress, reported recently that top FDA officials decided to reject the application of Plan B months before the government scientific review of the application was complete. The FDA is supposed to be a nonpartisan agency, and its role is to gauge the safety of drugs based upon scientific research. Its role is not, in any capacity, to judge drugs along party...
...been expressing to members of the faculty his “deep dissatisfaction” with the Dean of Arts and Sciences. This kind of backbiting is more than unprofessional. It undercuts the work and the morale of colleagues within FAS and damages the institution as a whole. We reject such tactics and the deplorable example they set for our students. We remain deeply concerned that the work of our departments and university cannot be sustained under such conditions, but we for our part renew our pledge to try to keep that work on track...