Word: rejection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...call upon our people to reject capitalism and free market system," a resolution on economics said...
Constitutional amendments must garner 25 percent support from constitutional conventions this spring and in the spring of 1991 to be placed on the ballot in 1992. If the joint legislative sessions reject the proposed change in the state constitution either time, the initiative dies, Pye said...
Call them the "No, but . . . " generation. No, they are not feminists, or so they say, but they do take certain rights for granted. "I reject the feminist label, but I guess I'd call myself an egalitarian," says Leslie Sandberg, 27, a political-campaign worker in Boston, whose attitude seems typical of her generation. "I'm feminine, not a feminist," insists Linn Thomas, an Auburn University senior, in another variation on the theme. Adds Thomas: "I picture a feminist as someone who is masculine and who doesn't shave her legs and is doing everything she can to deny that...
Already there are numerous signs that male attitudes and values are becoming "feminized," though most men might reject that description. In a survey conducted last summer for the recruiting firm Robert Half International, 56% of men polled said they would give up as much as a quarter of their salary to have more family or personal time. About 45% said they would probably refuse a promotion that involved sacrificing hours with their family...
Minority leader Steven Pierce (R-Westfield) urged House members to reject the pleas to increase taxes by well over $1 billion over the next 18 months...