Word: rejection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Justice Department has urged the Federal Reserve Board to reject Simon's latest deal on the ground that it would substantially lessen competition among Hawaii's banks. In its application, First Hawaiian, which has 58 branches, said it would sell three offices outside Honolulu once the merger was approved. Bank officials had hoped the step would help eliminate antitrust objections to the purchase of First Interstate. Even if the Federal Reserve ultimately approves the merger, Justice could go to court to block the deal...
Before the statement was issued, Ross said, "It appears that a fully political decision was made to reject this grant because the work may be considered controversial to some...It deals with any number of aspects of the dissolution of American society on a social and psychological level. [Kelley] deals with great humor and great wit and with great force and darkness as well...
...backbone of the home-school movement is the Christian Fundamentalist community, which believes that religion is either abused or ignored in the classroom. Other parents reject public education for more conventional reasons: poor academic standards, overcrowding, safety. The most uncompromising group call themselves "unschoolers," viewing as anathema any notion of educational structure...
...group formed in high school in the Long Island town of Cold Spring Harbor, the stomping grounds of Billy Joel. Though the band can't be the first rock success story from their hometown, they can be novel. Their determination to reject the music world norm of bands who create a false, flashy image for themselves is more impressive than their Ivy League background. They make no effort to conceal or distort their clean-cut image, an image which is a natural extension of the band's honest sound and sincere lyrics. And it is refreshing once in a while...
...Sachs devised a plan for economic reform notunlike one he had implemented in Bolivia in themid-1980s. In short, Sachs recommended that thePolish government immediately reject socialism,move toward a market economy by decontrollingprices and allow them to settle at a marketequilbrium...