Word: rejections
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Bush also tried to appease international critics still angry over his decision to reject the Kyoto Protocol, the treaty aimed at reducing global warming and endorsed by most of the rest of the world. Bush proposed a system that would be voluntary for corporations and would tie emissions reduction to economic output. He says his plan would prevent more than 500 million metric tons of heat-trapping gases from going into the atmosphere over the next 10 years--"the equivalent of taking 70 million cars off the road." But according to Bush's own economic-growth figures, his plan would...
...ought to be Free and Independent; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the Core Curriculum, and that all academic connection between them and the Core Curriculum, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent Students, they have full Power to choose electives, reject large classes, pursue intellectual stimulation, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent Students may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of our inflated grades, we mutually pledge to each other our Minds, our Diplomas...
...thoughts, not concepts, not words, not ideas. Images. The basis for all that we think. The ancient civilizations draw their literary roots from images, and 20th-century poets apply imagery and image-based literary techniques to their products of genius. Disappointingly, today’s art world fears to reject a creation...
...devotes hours to the pursuit of their music is a complicated affair to dissect. But Mendy, one of the characters in Terrence McNally’s The Lisbon Traviata, offers some insight when he explains his obsession with Maria Callas: “Opera doesn’t reject me, the real world does...
...years now, I’ve mocked and maligned Valentine’s Day with a spite usually reserved for rival sports teams and mothers-in-laws. I’ve learned to hate the candygrams and reject the heart-shaped suckers. I’ve even developed an arsenal of pretentious rebuffs for those among us who still give out the little Garfield valentines, my favorite being “fuck...