Word: rejection
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Transplants from living donors have been performed with kidneys and parts of the pancreas and liver, but never before with a lung. Lungs taken from cadavers are regularly transplanted into adults, but for reasons not well understood, children's bodies are more likely to reject them. If the new procedure proves successful, it may eventually be offered to thousands of premature infants with badly damaged lungs...
...Federal Government maintains that some conservation groups were told of the studies and agreed that they were necessary, but other environmentalists angrily reject the need for the projects. Says Allen Smith, Alaska regional director of the Wilderness Society: "I don't understand why they have to go out and kill a bunch of wildlife to prove what everybody already knows -- that a bunch of wildlife was killed...
...categorically reject the assumption that somebody needs to be completely removed from something to write about it objectively," Donziger said. "I will never be the sterile, automaton editor that [Niewyck] wants me to be. I care passionately about the Law School...
...message to conservatives: We reject your way of thinking. We demand that you say nothing against us. If you do, we (and the Politically Correct ideological machine that backs our agenda) will make you a pariah...
...given wide responsibility to decide how to run their own areas; when workers see a problem on the assembly line, they can pull on a blue handle and shut down the entire line. They are even given budget responsibility. One team in Saturn's final-assembly area voted to reject some proposed pneumatic car- assembly equipment and went to another supplier to buy electronic gear that its members believed to be safer. Says Hoalcraft: "I don't know of another U.A.W. person who has ever decided on the purchase and installation of equipment...