Word: rejectionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even Horatio Alger would find it improbable that the first American to break into the charmed circle of the world's fashion capital -- where others have tried and failed -- would be a two-time college dropout who once slept in Atlanta restaurants when he had no home, collected rejection slips...
Why, then, does the exposure of Boggs, though so much less important, feel so much more plangent than the rejection of Tower? Perhaps because we place more faith in our athletic superstars, and expect more faithfulness in return. Heroism is famously a game of inches: get a little too close...
The biggest happening, and the worst for Bush, was the Senate's rejection of former Senator John Tower for Secretary of Defense by a vote of 53 to 47. It marked the first time in 30 years that the full Senate had spurned a President's Cabinet choice, and was...
Instead, the strategy had shifted to a plan sketched out by White House chief of staff John Sununu and Senate Minority Leader Robert Dole within hours of Tower's narrow rejection by the Senate Armed Services Committee: since the will-o'-the-wisp of bipartisanship was likely to evaporate anyway...
Cheney's name had not figured in any of the speculation that arose in the hours after Tower's rejection. But the nomination quickly drew praise from the Senate, which will vote on his confirmation.