Word: rejection
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Well, I would hope that most American voters are intelligent enough to reject the simple-minded Rush Limbaugh one-party-good-other-party-bad mentality. The history of the United States is the history of moderation and compromise, and if Clinton believes that it is necessary to adopt elements of the Republican's platform in order to produce the most effective and successful policies, then he deserves credit, and not scorn, from the voters...
Most of all, I'm challenging myself to reject the definitions of success others throw around. I'm going to ask myself "Why?" a little bit sooner, and the question "How?" a little bit later. How is almost always an easier question to answer anyway...
Catholic schools are famous for imposing the kind of discipline that a lot of public-school teachers can only dream about. Parochial schools are free to reject applicants with a history as troublemakers. "If a child has a disciplinary problem or problems with drugs or weapons, they can just say no on the spot," says Valerie E. Lee, co-author of Catholic Schools and the Common Good. They can also expel unmanageable students more easily than public schools, which must observe a range of legal niceties that don't apply to the private sector...
This potential danger, when combined with the generally acknowledged risk of pph, was enough to persuade the FDA advisory committee to reject Redux by a 5-to-3 vote on the question of safety when it first came up for consideration a year ago. But a few hours later, FDA official Dr. James Bilstad reopened the discussion after some committee members had left the meeting. Since there was no longer a quorum, a new meeting was called for two months later, in November...
...fast, counters the FDA's Bilstad. Yes, he did reopen the issue after last September's no vote. But that, he says, is because it became clear that the vote to reject was invalid: at least one member had misunderstood the wording of the question on the table. "Obviously," says Bilstad, "we wanted a nonambiguous recommendation from the committee." Some members had left the meeting, though, and without a quorum he couldn't proceed. He considered polling the absentees by phone, but the FDA counsel advised against doing...