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...message to conservatives: We reject your way of thinking. We demand that you say nothing against us. If you do, we (and the Politically Correct ideological machine that backs our agenda) will make you a pariah...
...Justice Department has urged the Federal Reserve Board to reject Simon's latest deal on the ground that it would substantially lessen competition among Hawaii's banks. In its application, First Hawaiian, which has 58 branches, said it would sell three offices outside Honolulu once the merger was approved. Bank officials had hoped the step would help eliminate antitrust objections to the purchase of First Interstate. Even if the Federal Reserve ultimately approves the merger, Justice could go to court to block the deal...
...given wide responsibility to decide how to run their own areas; when workers see a problem on the assembly line, they can pull on a blue handle and shut down the entire line. They are even given budget responsibility. One team in Saturn's final-assembly area voted to reject some proposed pneumatic car- assembly equipment and went to another supplier to buy electronic gear that its members believed to be safer. Says Hoalcraft: "I don't know of another U.A.W. person who has ever decided on the purchase and installation of equipment...
Before the statement was issued, Ross said, "It appears that a fully political decision was made to reject this grant because the work may be considered controversial to some...It deals with any number of aspects of the dissolution of American society on a social and psychological level. [Kelley] deals with great humor and great wit and with great force and darkness as well...
...backbone of the home-school movement is the Christian Fundamentalist community, which believes that religion is either abused or ignored in the classroom. Other parents reject public education for more conventional reasons: poor academic standards, overcrowding, safety. The most uncompromising group call themselves "unschoolers," viewing as anathema any notion of educational structure...