Word: rejection
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...Peninsula staffers feel so uncomfortable at Harvard. If their first issue accurately reflects their beliefs, they must reject everything a liberal university upholds--tolerance of individual differences, personal autonomy and skepticism of dogma...
...approved George Bush's plan that would permit the two superpowers to maintain 195,000 troops each in Europe's central zone and for the U.S. to station an additional 30,000 elsewhere on the Continent. Only four days earlier in Moscow, Baker had listened to Mikhail Gorbachev reject any proposal setting unequal European troop deployments. The turnaround was so complete, and so rapid, that top U.S. officials pronounced themselves "astonished...
...moral judgment that refuses to consider the alternative is merely irresponsible. That is why Israel's moral neighborhood is important. It is not just the neighborhood, it is the alternative and, if Israel perishes, the future. It is morally absurd, therefore, to reject Israel for failing to meet Western standards of human rights when the consequence of that rejection is to consign the region to neighbors with considerably less regard for human rights...
...Berlin, which previously argued for a separate socialist existence in some kind of confederal relationship, has thrown in its hand. Unification is possible, Prime Minister Hans Modrow says, but only if the newly formed state remains neutral, unaffiliated with either NATO or the Warsaw Pact. Bonn and its allies reject that idea but counter with one presented by Genscher. A unified Germany should remain in NATO, he proposed, but allied troops or military structures should stay out of the areas that are now East Germany. In Moscow for his own set of talks, U.S. Secretary of State James Baker hinted...
...high-tech frontiers, the speedy service has its glitches. The IRS computers are programmed to accept virtually no discrepancies. Even a simple typographical or spacing error will prompt the system to reject the form. "The return has to be almost perfect before it goes through," says Richard Butler, a Chicago accountant. Tax giant H&R Block, which has hawked its service with a high-profile advertising campaign called "Rapid Refund," says its program is going smoothly. But smaller preparing firms have found the system to be a computerized nightmare. "We're experiencing a communication problem with software, and it costs...