Word: rejectionism
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Voting on four different versions of a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on members of Congress, the House of Representatives failed to pass a single one. The spectacular defeat marked the House's first rejection of a key G.O.P. bill, with the usually disciplined Republican rank and file splitting...
U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens today issued a highly unusual essay asking judges across the country to study whether executing prisoners who have spent long periods on death row violates the Constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Stevens made the request in a two-page supplement to...
Maybe it's easier for a woman to acknowledge this because subliminal prejudice hurts women too. Studies have shown, for example, that people are more likely to find an article convincing if it is signed by "Bob Someone" instead of, say, "Barbara Someone." It's just the brain's little...
Hopke's rejection letter cited Peninsula'sinconsistent publishing schedule as one of thereasons The Salient would not consider the offer.
For Rodriguez and her rooming group, the choice to live in the Quad represented a rejection of the Georgian splendor of the river houses in favor of the immense personal space of a single and the sunny comforts of a lawn big enough for many a muddy football game. Some...