Word: rejectionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Weld, a longtime U.S. attorney, won the governorship in 1990 by a narrow margin. His victory, which was backed by many liberal Democrats, was seen as a rejection of his opponent, acerbic Boston University president John T. Silber.
The staff's a priori rejection of any serious scholarship that challenges their long-held beliefs is very disturbing. An attitude like the staff's would have led to the rejection of the research of Galileo--and the research of countless others like him who challenged conventional wisdom with comprehensive...
In the end, John discovers, with the help of his psychiatrist, of course, the good that has come from his rejection by Lisa, a loss that leads him to the brink of suicide. But the ending comes too abruptly, offering an awkward reconciliation of love and pathology.
The group of scientists, headed Kroc Associate Professor of Neurology Dr. Howard L. Weiner, said the technique may also one day facilitate organ transplants by greatly reducing the likelihood of rejection.
Carpenter is studying how oral tolerization can be used to decrease the chance of organ rejection in an organ transplant. In studies using rats and mice, he learned that hearts and kidneys from normally incompatible donors could successfully be transplanted by feeding the subjects specific peptides from the donors.