Word: snubbing
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...wasn't invited to a routine Rose Garden ceremony for a Vermonter named Teacher of the Year, and was reportedly denied his ration of West Wing tour passes. If it was just an oversight (their explanation), they hardly look like management geniuses. If it was a ham-handed snub (everyone else's explanation), it showed how petty they could...
...before the inauguration, that the U.S. might pull its troops out of the Balkans? Or the new President's telling South Korean President Kim Dae Jung that the U.S. was not going to continue talks with North Korea, seemingly undermining Seoul's "Sunshine Policy" toward Pyongyang? What about the snub to Europeans and the rest of the world when Washington pronounced the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change dead? Or the insistent push forward on missile defense in the face of European opposition that is polite in public and exasperated in private...
...Same Whine, New Bottle: New Gingrich now has competition for title of "Politician Who has Made the Most Impetuous Move after a Perceived Snub." The former Speaker said he'd shut down the government after getting a bad seat on Air Force One. Jeffords changed the power structure of the Senate because he wasn't invited to a teacher of the year ceremony...
...have a bias in favor of thinking that small and sometimes seemingly trivial human events influence history in big ways. But, no, the White House's conspicuous snub of Jeffords by not inviting him to that event honoring a Vermont teacher did not trigger his bolting the party. But it did suggest that Bush's "compassionate conservativism" was just pollster-driven rhetoric, and that his talk about reaching across party lines was just talk. Heck, he couldn't even reach within his own party. So now Bush has indeed proved to be a "uniter, not a divider" - he's united...
...form of racial discrimination. Japan wanted more than anything to be taken seriously and treated as equal by the other imperial nations. When Western powers refused to endorse a statement of racial equality at the Versailles Conference in 1919, this was felt in Tokyo as a direct snub, which, in fact...