Word: rejection
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...wish to join, it would cease to serve its function. Similarly, adding women (or men to a sorority) would fundamentally alter the nature of the house's social environment, because of sexual tension and attraction arising from biological differences. Therefore, it is just as moral for a fraternity to reject any woman, or a male who the members feel wouldn't contribute to the social atmosphere, as it is for Harvard to reject someone with low SAT scores...
...While it is moral for an organization to exclude based on characteristics that affect its mission, it is immoral to exclude based on characteristics that are irrelevant. Hence Harvard's non-discrimination code; it would be wrong for the University, whose goal is to train scholars and citizens, to reject a qualified candidate simply because he or she is black or Jewish. One's race, ethnicity and gender have nothing to do with one's potential to learn or improve society...
...decades, the best minds in immunology had failed to solve this riddle: Why did the immune system evolve to reject something--an organ transplant--that didn't become common until the 20th century? In the 1970s a couple of outsiders, working in relative isolation in Australia, hit on the answer. Australian Peter Doherty, who trained as a veterinary surgeon, and Dr. Rolf Zinkernagel, a Swiss specialist in tropical diseases, figured out that the rejection response was actually a by-product of the body's basic virus-defense system...
...President Clinton has worked to park himself squarely in the political center, the Republicans have had to reject their traditions in order to differentiate themselves on the issues. Thus when Clinton saw their balanced budget demand, they raised their wager to include a 15 percent tax cut. When the President proposed a crime plan with 100,000 new police on the streets, 100,000 new jail cells and an expansion of the death penalty, the Republicans leapt forward to denounce him for including funds for "midnight basketball," one of George Bush's 1000 Points of Light. When President Clinton pushed...
...Bodine Aluminum, Lloyd still ruefully recalls the day the new Troy plant produced the first intake manifold to be rejected--after three months and 60,000 defect-free parts. The lapse "was immediately followed by an eight-hour meeting the next day," says Lloyd, who has had to adjust to the Japanese penchant for such talkathons. "Before, if I wanted to do X, I could do X," Lloyd says, "but now we have to meet for three days. They want everyone to be on board." Bodine has cut its initial reject rate from 20% to less than 2%. Even better...