Word: spurns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Offers of aid flood the Texas site, but some campers spurn them...
...until the arrival of a younger telex operator, to whom the reporting seemed neither repugnant nor shocking. Art Director Rudy Hoglund noticed the reluctance of some professional models, worried about their image, to pose for TIME'S cover-normally not the kind of booking New York City models spurn. They feared that readers, after seeing them in the magazine, might deduce that they themselves suffered from the disease...
...islands, an area that is, if possible, even more remote than the Falklands. According to church sources, a settlement proposed by a Vatican mediator has been accepted by the government of Chile, but not by that of Argentina. The Galtieri government's refusal had prompted John Paul to spurn the pleas of Argentine bishops for a papal visit, until the fast-moving developments of the past few weeks changed his mind...
...meat and butter. Meat rations were also increased in the eastern town of Chelm, where workers held a one-hour strike to protest short supplies. Solidarity, meanwhile, announced a "massive petition drive" for the release of seven political prisoners. In another move that may have repercussions, Solidarity seemed to spurn a government proposal for alternate Saturdays off. The union has been insisting on every Saturday, as the authorities promised last September...
Worldwide, the success of the boycott remains in doubt. The State Department counts 37 countries that will spurn the Olympics, but many are relatively small African and Asian nations. Surprisingly, Britain has decided to compete. The British Olympic Committee, defying its own government, voted in March to participate and insisted last week that it will not change. When the Games open in Moscow on July 19, they will be considerably less than a true Olympics, but apparently a lot more than a mere Communist-bloc Spartakiad...