Word: rejection
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...punitive than a carbon tax. "The BTU tax doesn't cause ^ any big shift in fuel choices," says an official of the United Mine Workers union. "We prefer it to the carbon tax, which could destroy our industry." But the levy would still run afoul of powerful interests that reject the very idea of new energy taxes. Says Charles DiBona, president of the American Petroleum Institute: "The deficit is a national problem and requires a national solution, not a tax on a single critical segment of the economy...
...decision to reject anyone who is guilty (or appears guilty) or improper employment practices is more than political expediency. It is also a ridiculously unrealistic overreaction to Baird's failure...
...this is not a license to reject law-abiding and respectable citizens like Kimba Wood. By many accounts, Wood could have been a fantastic attorney general. A Federal District Judge since 1988, she has a reputation for toughness that she earned by sentencing Michael Milken to 10 years in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to six counts of fraud...
Whatever his motivations, Milosevic had little reason to reject the Vance- Owen plan. Talking about peace has repeatedly allowed the Serbs valuable time to consolidate their conquests. So after Karadzic said no at the international negotiations in Geneva last week, Milosevic had a long, private talk with him and persuaded...
...convey this sense of abandonment and emptiness without losing the reader is not easy. Shadow Play could have turned into another clever existential dead end. But Baxter fills the void with a hundred human touches, a style as intimate as chamber music, and a hero who rouses himself to reject the banality that hoohah happens...