Word: rejection
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...hotel in their underwear, the San Francisco players contemplated the fates. In August, after four straight games lost in the opponent's last at-bat, the Giants were five behind Cincinnati and facing a four-game Reds series and maybe the end. But Pitcher Mike LaCoss, a Reds reject, shut Cincinnati down in the first game, and Atlee Hammaker, Mike Krukow and Kelly Downs followed suit. Adding the old sinker baller Rick Reuschel for seasoning, the Giants pulled away...
...Bork this Thursday -- a deadline it may miss owing to the length of much of the testimony -- Specter is the least predictable of the three fence-sitters. Bork lobbyists conceded last week that Arizona Democrat Dennis DeConcini may be "gone," likely to join six other Democrats considered certain to reject the judge. Forecasters think that Alabama's Howell Heflin will be the only Democrat on the panel to vote for Bork, joining five certain Republican supporters...
Doctors debate whether or not public enthusiasm has gone too far. At Johns Hopkins, Dr. John Hoopes turned away a 23-year-old woman "who felt she would feel better if she had an eye lift." Hoopes estimates that he and his colleagues reject about 25% of those seeking cosmetic surgery, often because they are too young. But New York Plastic Surgeon Gerald Imber encourages preventive surgery for clients in their 30s and 40s: "The results are better when the raw materials are fresher." Indeed, so many eager candidates are intent on preserving their youthful looks that crow's-feet...
After noting that Soviet negotiators privately proposed the idea during July talks on nuclear testing in Geneva, White House Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater warily responded, "We don't really know the specifics of what the proposal means." But the Administration continues to reject a total test ban, which would hamper its plans to upgrade the U.S. nuclear arsenal...
...doom the contra effort for good. In early August, Reagan startled members of his Administration by unveiling a peace plan that was co-sponsored by Democratic House Speaker Jim Wright. According to State Department officials, Reagan had intended to present the Sandinistas with a proposal that they could only reject, then ask Congress for new contra funding before the current aid expires on Sept. 30. But the scheme went awry. Three days later, when the Presidents of El Salvador, Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua met in Guatemala City to discuss a homegrown peace proposal, the Central American leaders allied...