Word: rebuff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...material well-being of the people. Any cut in the military budget makes it possible to come more quickly out of our difficulties. The military is well aware of that. We are keeping the minimum required for maintaining the armed forces in a state of readiness to rebuff a possible aggressor. When the situation in the country is hard, everyone should do some belt tightening...
Still, the latest attempt to end the eight-year war in Nicaragua was a rebuff to the U.S., which has supported and guided the contra effort since its inception in 1981. Right up to the last minute, the Bush Administration lobbied regional leaders to postpone demobilization until after the Nicaraguan election, scheduled for Feb. 25, to give the Sandinista regime at least some incentive to uphold its pledges for a free and fair vote...
...setting was an unlikely place to announce the largest corporate takeover in Britain. Employees of Consolidated Gold Fields, the world's second largest gold producer, had gathered last week at the London Zoo for a dinner party to celebrate the company's rebuff in May of a hostile takeover bid by South African-controlled Minorco. Not until the meal was over did ConsGold Chairman Rudolph Agnew inform his troops that the company's board had accepted a $5.5 billion takeover bid from Hanson PLC, the $12.5 billion British group whose holdings include Jacuzzi and Farberware...
...rebuff last week was the latest in a series of dogfights between the company and its suitors. The maneuvering began on March 28, when NWA announced that another investment group had amassed a 4.9% stake in the company and might make a takeover bid. NWA promptly rejected the overture. While the unidentified group has not been heard from since, word of its interest apparently helped draw Davis into the contest. His bid pushed NWA's stock price from 68 1/4 in late March to 88 3/4 at the end of last week...
...intransigence nearly matches Shamir's. In his first formal session with the P.L.O. last week, a four-hour meeting in Carthage, U.S. Ambassador to Tunisia Robert Pelletreau failed to persuade Arafat's representatives to order a halt to the rock throwing and other violence of the intifadeh. The rebuff, together with continued raids from Lebanese territory, showed that progress toward a settlement is more than a matter of moving Shamir's government...