Word: rejection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...took a different course. All three, at their apogee, were rulers of once great empires that had fallen into political and social disarray. But Ataturk and Nasser were committed to resurrection by beating the West at its own game of building strong secular states. Khomeini's strategy was to reject Western ways, keeping Iran close to its Islamic roots...
...substance of liberalism is foolishness, which explains why liberals avoid the ballot box, since Americans largely have the common sense to recognize foolishness for what it is and reject it as such. For example, liberals wanted to help the poor, especially poor children, so they created a welfare system with perverse incentives that encouraged the birth of children into poverty. For another example, liberals want to open political office to all candidates, so they seek to limit the availability of indispensable campaign funds. The list could continue endlessly, but the point is the same: liberal policies are counterintuitive on their...
...Duma must approve the President's nominee and will almost certainly go along with Kiriyenko. The communists who dominate the parliament are complaining that he is too young and too inexperienced. But they are expected to accept him in due course. If they reject the President's choice three times, Yeltsin can dissolve parliament and call new elections. Most members of the Duma will not want to risk their jobs on the issue, so they might vote against Kiriyenko once or twice, then accept...
...Lyons from the leadership of the National Baptist Convention after he allegedly embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars, we're sticking with the President come hell, high water, or a new plague of bimbos. As Jesse Jackson, who has become Clinton's Billy Graham, puts it, blacks tend to reject the sin but not the sinner. We believe in forgiveness--when transgressors...
...anticipate that Harvard will be criticized for "quota-filling" and violating "traditional" norms of morality in making this choice. We reject both of these objections as groundless. As a College, we are fortunate that diversity and qualification are wedded in the same choice. We congratulate the University for finding the best candidates for the job regardless of sexual orientation. Hopefully the quality of Eck and Austin as scholars and community leaders will demonstrate to skeptics within the University and to national observers that sexual orientation is irrelevant to job performance...