Word: rejection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Monday, when the giant map of the U.S. in the company's operations center in New Jersey began to light up like a football scoreboard. For reasons still being investigated, a computer in New York City had come to believe it was overloaded with calls, and it started to reject them. Alerted to New York's troubles, dozens of backup computers across the U.S. automatically switched in to take up the slack -- only to exhibit the same bizarre symptoms. People trying to place long-distance calls all over the world suddenly began to hear busy signals and recorded messages blandly...
...action came a day after the House had voted overwhelmingly to reject Bush's veto, and followed intense lobbying on the part of Bush and former President Richard M. Nixon...
Last week Gorbachev insisted that if the issue is ever put to a vote, Lithuanians will ultimately reject secession in favor of his own federation plan. Although Gorbachev did not back up that prediction with a wager, he has bet his prestige on the outcome...
...their customers fatally overdose themselves or are gunned down in turf battles between dealers, so be it. Whatever the drug pushers' goal may be, blacks could thwart them by the simple expedient of refusing to use drugs. The question is whether they will be self-interested enough to reject deluded genocide theories and face up to an uncomfortable truth: if someone is trying to kill blacks with drugs, blacks are helping them...
...declare bankruptcy to protect the store franchises," says Monroe Greenstein, an industry analyst at Bear Stearns. The Federated and Allied chains could then operate under bankruptcy protection, which would entitle them to suspend interest payments and pay suppliers more promptly for their goods. But other Campeau watchers reject that strategy. Says Rothschild's Ross: "There is relatively little that can be done in bankruptcy that cannot be done out of it." He argued that while a bankruptcy filing would reduce interest costs, it would produce legal and other professional fees that could run to millions of dollars a month...