Word: rejection
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Many soldiers interviewed at Aberdeen and Fort Leonard Wood wonder if the attraction between a recruit and a drill sergeant sometimes flows both ways--if, that is, some of the young women are to blame--but Army officials, at least publicly, reject this argument. "Who's the vulnerable party?" asks Major Ralph Palmiero, executive officer of the 2nd Battalion 47th Infantry Division at Fort Leonard Wood. "A new private who is so scared and vulnerable, who doesn't understand the Army? Or a drill sergeant, who definitely knows better?" Now that the military has decided to ask, it is likely...
That's when the fight started. Despite Norfolk's munificence, Philadelphia-based Conrail is using Pennsylvania's antitakeover laws to reject the bid. Conrail says the CSX offer will be better in the long haul...
Most law school and medical school deans admit a startling inability to verify data supplied by students--intangible data which are crucial in the decision to accept or reject...
...Democratic triumph; it is also wrong. For this was no repudiation of Republicans or the Republican agenda. Clinton ran as a deficit-cutting, budget-balancing, welfare-reforming President who now believes 16-year-olds should have a drug test before they get a driver's license. Voters did reject the G.O.P. approach to education and the environment, but Republicans knew they were so badly out of touch that they began pumping money and life into both back in the summer...
...support China," said legislator Andrew Cheng of the Democrats, Hong Kong's biggest political party. So today, with apt timing, China dispensed a summary reminder to Hong Kong--and to the world--that it is neither responsive nor repentant. A heavily guarded Beijing court took just 10 minutes to reject the appeal of Wang Dan, the dissident sentenced to 11 years in prison for articles written in Hong Kong newspapers. As at Wang's secretive Oct. 30 trial, police kept foreign press away, confiscating tapes and briefly detaining a photographer. "I don't think they will relax on issues...