Word: rejection
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Even with the arms embargo, the Bosnian army's Fifth Corps in Bihac is holding its own against the Serbs. Its commanders loudly reject the Vance-Owen proposal. "If they try to impose that plan," says Captain Ramiz Drekovic, "we will continue our war until we liberate Bosnia and Herzegovina. It could take a year, five years, 10 or a hundred...
...cultural theorists Sunder cites in her thesis lend some insight. Nancy Chodorow asserts that girls form their gender identities by assuming maternal traits such as caring, nurturing and connectedness, while boys separate from their mothers and reject those same traits...
...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...