Word: rejection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...third suggestion, the Overpowering Assumption, I think, is best. But not for the reasons he suggests--that the assumption is so cosmic that it might be accepted. It is rarely "accepted;" we aren't here to accept or reject, we're here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay it is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we all like to be called "assistants," not "graders" --you may be able to ferret...
...believes a wholesale change in the country's constitution is needed to eliminate white domination. Judges in South Africa do not have the power to strike down laws as unconstitutional, so Parliament can and does deprive citizens of their rights by passing statutes that the courts are unable to reject. Says Julius Chambers, Greenberg's successor at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund: "The law has provided some limited protection, but you're not going to have any major breakthroughs until you have a changed constitution...
Jaruzelski did not reject outright the idea of a Solidarity government, but, according to Walesa, preferred to press ahead with a plan to form a Communist- led coalition. Jaruzelski "must take on all the responsibility for the formation of a new government," said Walesa. "For my part, I intend to form a shadow cabinet to prepare for the measures that sooner or later will become inevitable." In fact, Walesa created a 15-member shadow cabinet last December; its role then was to formulate the trade union's position in preparation for so-called round-table talks that...
Japan, the West and noncommunist Southeast Asian countries agree on that approach. Vietnam, the Soviet Union and Cambodia's pro-Hanoi government reject inclusion of the Khmer Rouge...
...They though it was impossible, but theycouldn't reject me," she said