Word: rejection
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Surprise! After the latest constitutional debacle on Oct. 26, when voters rejected yet another complicated package of reforms, the result appears to be something akin to anticlimax. Rather than aggravating French-English tensions, the outcome seems to have left 27 million Canadians relieved that, at least for now, the perennial constitutional issue has been swept off the table. The compromise proposal, supported strongly by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, lost by a nationwide vote of 54% to 45%; it was rejected in six of the 10 provinces, including Quebec. That, noted Brian Falesky, a lawyer in Calgary, Alberta, "was the first...
...officers of the UMass Black fraternity, Phi Beta Sigma, cannot possibly be unaware of Jeffries' anti-Semitic proclivities. Black students everywhere have a moral obligation to reject anti-Semitic behavior--an obligation passed down to them by thousands-on-thousands of Black folks whose lives were maimed or snuffed out by America's racist patterns, and an obligation also passed on to them by that noble warrior against America's racist patterns, Dr. Martin Luther King...
From this stance, his advisers fear Clinton will follow Roosevelt and reject a White House system that revolves around a strong chief of staff -- even if the President-elect permits someone to have the title. F.D.R. preferred what political scientists describe as a "spokes of a wheel" structure that had the President at the hub. Carter too tried a "spokes" arrangement for the first two years of his term. Jack Watson (who was Carter's last chief of staff) has described the disaster that ensued. Carter "wished to know the pros and cons and the ins and the outs...
...Opera doesn't reject me. The real world does," laments one of the characters in Terrence McNally's The Lisbon Traviata. This rather pathetic but poignant observation marks the sadness at the core of this funny play, now in production at the The New Repertory Theatre...
...Gore '69 stopped eight times yesterday toplug Clinton's central message, calling theelection a "chance to reject the politics ofdenial and division, inaction, excuses, delay,failure and the betrayal of a whole series ofpromises to average working families...