Word: rejections
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...time as Prime Minister and whose Our Ukraine bloc is way ahead in the polls. Yuschenko promises that "We'll build a Ukraine that we won't be ashamed of." The hidden agenda in the elections, Ukrainian observers say, is Kuchma's political survival. The President and his supporters reject the slew of allegations laid against him - from illegal arms sales through murder and massive corruption - describing them as the work of hostile Western governments, enemies at home or the likes of financier George Soros. But they clearly worry him. To strengthen his position - and ensure he is not prosecuted...
Usually, the latter matters far more. Rarely will a reader reject the words of the Iliad or War and Peace because of an ugly cover, and rarely will an even remotely judicious reader buy a book based solely on pretty cover art. In this show, even when the books do have content, the “reader’s” attention is inexorably drawn towards the visual aspects of the presentation—a tendency of which the artists seem fully aware, and even to embrace. McCarthy, for instance, says in her artist’s statement that...
...died in committee, it likely would have been approved in a Senate floor vote, with as many as three Democratic Senators willing to break party ranks and support Pickering. Instead, the wiles of 10 senators managed to keep the democratically elected body invested with Constitutional authority to approve or reject judicial nominations from doing just that...
...problems remain. Transplant surgery is a punishing procedure, and the battery of antirejection drugs a patient must take can cause grueling side effects. If a transplant recipient did become pregnant, the body, already fighting to reject the alien organ, might reject the fetus too. And if the fetus survived, the circulatory problems that caused the Saudi transplant to fail could only get worse during pregnancy, when blood volume increases dramatically...
...decision of the Harvard College Library not to immediately implement plans to extend the hours of Lamont Library (News, “Libraries Reject Later Hours,” Mar. 11) was a decision carefully considered in the midst of many ongoing projects. Unfortunately, the Undergraduate Council’s actions on this matter have not shown the same degree of careful thought and research. The council made its decisions regarding extension of hours at Lamont library in a complete vacuum, neither actively soliciting the opinion of the student body, nor expressing interest in conferring with the representatives it elected...