Word: rejections
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Oppenheimer had his silent revenge, though. Strauss’s unconscionable actions against the famed scientist led senators to reject his appointment as commerce secretary. Oppenheimer lived out the rest of his days at Princeton, dying at age 62 when his smoking habit finally caught up with him in the form of cancer. Oppenheimer had been publicly redeemed though. He received the Fermi Prize for public service from President Johnson, and he was portrayed sympathetically in a 1964 play that attracted international acclaim...
People of faith are often challenged to reconcile religious traditionalism with a desire for progressive action and modernism: Catholics who disagree with the encyclicals of the pope or Muslims who reject fundamentalist action are currently among the more prominent examples...
...areas, notably in regard to the protection of indigenous peoples. The ngo suggests the Turkish government may use the new pipeline as an excuse to crack down on ethnic Kurds living along its route. Last December, Banca Intesa withdrew from the project, but both Citigroup and ABN Amro reject BankTrack's criticisms and have stayed on. "BTC is a complex and challenging transaction, but we felt on balance that it did meet the Equator Principles," says Richard Burrett, ABN Amro's managing director for sustainable development...
...they do. Indeed, the folks at the White House told me that the President and the infirm 80-year-old Crown Prince were walking on an uneven path in Texas, the prince reached out for support and ... anyway, to reject Abdullah's hand would have been ungracious, and the President will always choose courtesy over ungraciousness--even if the image conveys the subconscious message that the oily Saudis are so important to the U.S. economy that President Macho is willing to act in an unmanly fashion in order to keep them happy...
...comments had been cleared by his mentor President Jacques Chirac. The spat comes at an awkward time for the government. Chirac has been unable to halt the advance of the no campaign ahead of the May 29 referendum on the European constitution - according to a poll by BVA, 58% reject the document - and many people are angry over unpopular reforms and the stalled economy. Speculation is rife that Raffarin will be pushed aside after the vote. But he was quick to respond to de Villepin's remarks, saying he'd received the full backing of the Elys...