Word: rejection
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...Burundi's first free elections in 1993. At the same time, he has a history of interfering with the presidencies of others. (After helping overthrow a military dictatorship in 1987, he has now participated in two coups.) The head of the largest Hutu political party called on members to reject Buyoya's "return by the barrel of the gun" and appealed to the international community to restore democracy. But the Clinton Administration has drawn the line at logistical support for an international peacekeeping force. TIME's Andrew Purvis says only international military intervention would make a difference: "So long...
...Russian people chose--and chose decisively--to reject the past. Voting in the final round of the presidential election last week, they preferred Boris Yeltsin to his Communist rival Gennadi Zyuganov by a margin of 13 percentage points. He is far from the ideal democrat or reformer, and his lieutenants Victor Chernomyrdin and Alexander Lebed are already squabbling over power, but Yeltsin is arguably the best hope Russia has for moving toward pluralism and an open economy. By re-electing him, the Russians defied predictions that they might willingly resubmit themselves to communist rule...
...working in a typical week." In this environment, Wilson argues, people have little chance to gain the educational and social skills that would make them attractive to employers. In a series of interviews, several employers admitted that a home address in the ghetto was sufficient reason to reject a job applicant. People from such areas, one executive said, "are not dependable. They have never been taught that when you have a job, you have to be there at a certain time and you're to stay there until the time is finished...
...fundamental belief, says political scientist Sprinzak, "is, 'We're still at Masada, much stronger, not as isolated, but still a Jewish island in a sea of hostile Arabs." Leaders who can assess their choices only in terms of preconceived, fixed notions, who refuse to benefit from experience, who reject contrary signs of a better course, says historian Tuchman, are the ones doomed to folly. That, she notes, is what cost Rehoboam, son of King Solomon, the Kingdom of Israel and the 10 tribes forever...
...later life Nixon appears to have regarded all Kennedys as having been placed on earth to torment him. John Kennedy became the gold standard for the style of presidential leadership, and as President, Nixon, to his eternal chagrin, could never seem to decide whether to emulate it or reject...