Word: rejection
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...Botha's Durban speech failed to live up to its advance billing remains a subject of intense speculation. The initial explanation was that there had been a right-wing rebellion within his Cabinet. Diplomats, businessmen and journalists reject that theory, however, noting that the high-level officials who previewed the speech stressed that it had already been approved by a special Cabinet committee. One top official told TIME that the reforms would become "government policy" unless Botha himself revised the draft. South Africans suggest three more plausible explanations. Botha may have changed his mind at the last minute...
Business correspondence should be simple and brief, Baldrige declares. She proudly reports that soon after her brother, Malcolm Baldrige, became Secretary of Commerce in 1981, he programmed the department's word processors to reject such business jargon as "to prioritize," "bottom line" and "impact" used as a verb. The smart business executive meticulously manages what may seem to be minor concerns. Writes Baldrige: "Details linked together create a strong, effective executive presence that propels an individual upward in his or her career...
...matter of policy, Harvard and many other universities reject all classified and restricted research proposals because they believe such regulations violate the ethic of academic freedom...
...point is that Harvard should not flatly reject morality because it is afraid it would have to be consistently moral or that it would have to be broadly moral...
Members of the Endowment say the movement is not an explicitly anti-Harvard gesture. Unlike sixties activists, they say, they don't want to deny their affiliation with Harvard, nor do they want to reject it. Instead, they want to make Harvard a place they can respect...