Word: rejection
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Board? Yes. In New York someone who wants to buy a co-op apartment is also asking to join other residents in a partnership responsible for the entire building, and the board, after examining his references and his tax forms, can reject him without even troubling to give a reason. Supplicants before a co-op board--people who ordinarily may be contentious or even fearsome--accept this treatment without a peep. Now that characters like Somoza and Trujillo and Stroessner have passed from the scene, Americans who live in other cities may get the impression that the exercise of totally...
Lately, some co-op boards have apparently rejected ostensibly qualified buyers--even buyers they wouldn't mind sharing the elevator with every morning--simply to add to the cachet of the building. In other words, a board member who paid $100,000 for an apartment in an A+ building during the down market of the early '70s may reject people willing to pay $15 million for an apartment two floors away in the hope that such rejection will increase the value of his own apartment to $16 million...
...answer, quite plainly, is no. In fact, most conservatives I know are more open-minded and less hypocritical than their liberal colleagues. They'll neither embrace you nor reject you because of your sexual orientation--they simply don't care. It makes no difference if you're gay, just as it makes no difference if you're black, Jewish, rich or poor. What matters to them, instead, is the content of your character. True, those locked into the myopic mind set of "my group against the world" will not garner much sympathy. But not all of us are so provincial...
...Clinton's failure so far to obtain fast-track authority to negotiate multilateral trade deals. Because he knew he would lose, the President asked the House to postpone a scheduled November vote on that authority, which would have enabled him to strike trade bargains that Congress could accept or reject but not amend...
...Minghella. Damon will play the title role in The Talented Mr. Ripley, Minghella's adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel about a charming con man driven to murder. Until recently, scripts sent to him had multiple sets of fingerprints on them; this one came straight from Tom Cruise's reject pile. "There's something so apple pie about him," says Minghella. "You know he was the best-looking kid in his school, won all the awards at track and field and dated the most popular girl...