Word: rejections
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...territory remains indispensable to the country's ability to defend itself. They tend to see the continuation of a low-intensity war between Israel and the Palestinians as representing little threat to U.S. interests or regional stability, and like Sharon and Bibi Netanyahu, the Bush administration hawks tend to reject the very premise of the Oslo Accords. They have persuaded President Bush to adopt a policy that requires the remaking of Palestinian politics on terms more acceptable to the U.S. and Israel as a precondition for political dialogue. Replacing Saddam with a pro-Western leadership, some hawks suggest, could profoundly...
...come when the parliament passes Khatami's bill, and it goes to the hard-line Guardian Council for approval. The hard-line clerics who dominate this unelected body have vetoed scores of pro-reform legislation in the past, but the President's bill would place them in a quandary: reject the legislation and risk an explosion of popular protest, or approve it and suffer the inevitable consequences. If their recent track record offers any guide, the Council may duck the confrontation by approving the bill, then seek to undermine its implementation via their control of the judiciary...
...Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and like many moderate Arab regimes, they're particularly alarmed at the potential domestic consequences of a U.S. attack on Iraq while battles rage in the West Bank and Gaza. But the most forceful advocates of attacking Iraq, such as Defense Policy Board chairman Richard Perle, reject the notion that calming the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a prerequisite for attacking Iraq, arguing instead that removing Saddam's regime will break the logjam in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It's not an argument that resonates anywhere in the Arab world, but the neo-cons have little patience right...
...have become so acrimonious that they have begun seeping out of this famously buttoned-up White House. Lindsey can roll his eyes when asked about O'Neill's latest unscripted remark. And according to allies, he has complained that Hubbard's status quo views have persuaded the President to reject as interventionist even modest new policy steps. The President's top economists, says a senior Administration official, "disagree on the analysis before they ever get to the remedies...
...scarcity of affordable housing, former Cabrini tenants complain that the path to building a new life away from the projects is blocked by the same obstacles that helped keep them there in the first place: bad credit; a sagging job market; hostile, sometimes racist landlords; and neighborhoods that reject or make life uncomfortable for the incoming poor. "It's tough dealing with landlords when they know you have a voucher," says Berryman. "They treat you different when they know you're coming from the projects." Many of those landlords, she says, harbored misguided suspicions that she or her teenage...