Word: rejected
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lott said after the vote. "That's what the fighting is all about." Well, that?s what the fighting will be about. Before the Republicans can turn Clinton?s promised veto (or, more improbably, concessions) into a 2000 rallying cry, they?ve got to give him something to reject, and that?s why even before the final vote, Lott and Hastert were huddling with their deputies over when the bicameral negotiations would get underway. They?ve got their work cut out ?- about the only thing the House and Senate versions share is their staggering $792 billion price tags...
...school committee meeting, but he strongly agreed with McGuire's concern. "It's a very sad day for Boston to leave the high ground of a fair plan that didn't give preference to anyone and empowered parents, while making it impossible for a school to reject any student," he said...
Strong gun control. Limited gun control. Say good-bye to any change in gun control in the near future. By a 280-to-147 vote Friday, the House of Representatives decided to reject the entire raft of gun control measures the chamber had managed to slog through, sometimes in partisan hand-to-hand parliamentary combat, during the week?s blazing shootout over firearms. Democrats voted against the final bill because of a key NRA-backed provision -- approved by the slimmest of majorities -- which would have weakened existing restrictions on gun-show sales. They were joined by a group of conservative...
...help rebuilding their shattered country while he?s still in power. (The latter condition may well be quietly dropped as Europe balks at the destabilizing consequences of trying to starve out a dictatorship in its own backyard.) Indeed, with Milosevic?s strongest challengers right now being nationalists who reject the Kosovo peace deal, it may not even be in the West?s immediate interest to make Milosevic?s ouster a short-term priority. After all, in the long run he?s probably damned himself to a nasty end, whether as a besieged despot, a fugitive, in a war crimes court...
...When I wrote the bill, my main idea was that we shouldn't reject the [organization] because of one particular aspect," he said in an interview...