Word: rejections
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...chief of staff ran several decisions past Reagan, who agreed, for example, to reject the latest offer by House Democrats on the budget. But Regan determined on his own the White House response to a Federal Reserve Board move that allowed a faster-than-planned expansion of the nation's money supply: tacit approval, signaled by making no comment at all. Said Republican Senator Dan Quayle of Indiana, assessing Regan's performance: "He is the acting President. He will be the Sherman Adams of this Administration...
John Paul II rejected this worldly thinking. This Pope made Catholicism alive and real and challenged us to make radical choices for faith. He sought to remind us that she who would make a real choice, a difficult choice, must be prepared for the world to reject or punish her for what she believes. Without this risk, a choice is insignificant. Against our own mindless choices of paper or plastic, Chevy or Ford, this Pope pointed us in the direction of those choices that make us fully human...
There are some who would argue that we should privatize Social Security not because of solvency issues, but because private accounts are inherently superior to the current system. We believe that the massive transition costs outlined above are enough reason to reject this argument. But more importantly, privatization destroys the goal of Social Security: confidence in retirement. Even if the average worker would benefit from private accounts (which may or may not happen), there will be many, many workers whose private accounts would under perform, costing them thousands in retirement. Social Security is meant to be a guaranteed retirement foundation...
...many, in the view of the latest and leaner-minded Defense Department boss. Next month Rumsfeld will list the bases he wants closed or moved, and a nine-member Base Realignment and Closure Commission has until Sept. 8 to approve or amend his recommendations. Then Bush must accept or reject the final list--on an all-or-none basis--and submit it to Congress, whose only option is to pass a joint resolution by Nov. 7 to turn down the list in its entirety. Otherwise it becomes binding...
...tips to conservation officers in both countries, officials say. So far about 50 dead birds with tail and wing feathers and talons removed have been found dumped in wooded areas near the traditional territory of B.C.'s Squamish and Burrard Indian bands, north of Vancouver. Band officials vehemently reject suggestions that aboriginals are involved in the slaughter. "We all share equally the horror and shock and frustration," Squamish Nation council chair Bill Williams says...