Word: rejection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...loved the skit, hated the media's typecasting. "Some of these films explored certain areas of how we treat each other that I find horrific, and that's why I wanted to do them," he says, practically seething. "But I have 16 years of work behind me, so I reject the notion that that's the only way people view...
...case is on appeal from the Third Circuit, which ruled that the board could never use diversity as a reason for making employment decisions based on race. The brief asks the Court to "reject the unnecessarily broad pronouncement" made by the lower court...
...Builds character," Mom would advise me when I pouted about being "the reject in school who doesn't have a TV." I didn't complain much. "You knew it wouldn't get you anywhere, and increasingly, it became a mark of pride," she recalls...
...once today?s party ends, Athens will confront the Herculean challenge of financing the preparations for the Olympiad at the same time as the country undertakes austerity measures necessary to qualify for European Monetary Union. ?The organizers have adopted a Spartan $1.7 billion budget, saying they reject the over-commercialization of the Games,? says Carassava. ?But it remains to be seen whether they?ll manage to stay within that budget and not add to the burden of an already cash-strapped city.? Because as many previous host cities can testify, from a financial angle hosting the Games can be something...
...Mormons reject the label polytheistic pinned on them by other Christians; they believe that humans deal with only one God. Yet they allow for other deities presiding over other worlds. Smith stated that God was once a humanlike being who had a wife and in fact still has a body of "flesh and bones." Mormons also believe that men, in a process known as deification, may become God-like. Lorenzo Snow, an early President and Prophet, famously aphorized, "As man is now, God once was; as God now is, man may become." Mormonism excludes original sin, whose expiation most Christians...