Word: rejections
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...critique their generation’s slavish devotion to Abercrombie, North Face and Calvin, preferring the thrift shop aesthetic.” But clothing has many aesthetic, social and political dimensions, and Schor emphasizes that apparel shouldn’t be trivialized. “Don’t reject consumption,” she said to the crowd in the fiction section. As for clothes, Schor quips ironically: “We’re not materialistic enough because we discard them...
...million members. These were her most obvious allies in reining in Islamic radicalism, yet she has alienated them at precisely the wrong time. The chairman of one, Muhammadiyah, initially backed the President's tough post-Bali line. Now he's backpedaling, particularly on the arrest of Ba'asyir. "I reject Ba'asyir's strategy to achieve his ideas and goals," Syafii Maarif told TIME. "But his arrest was not based on enough legal evidence. The police should not arrest people at will without strong evidence...
When the union that represents Southwest's pilots told members to reject the company's contract offer, Southwest pilots rebelled. "The industry--and the economy--is going to hell, and I'm supposed to vote against?" scoffed veteran pilot Tracy Price. "The union was out of touch. I took the raise." Two-thirds of the pilots voted in September to accept management's offer. They voted the union leadership out of office last week, in large part because of its unrealistic stance on wages...
...Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) would like to respond to the editorial notebook by Lia C. Larson ’04 entitled “The Long Walk Home” (Oct. 21 ). We reject Larson’s assertion that the University will take action only after something terrible happens and that the HUPD is resting on the laurels of low crime rates. Our mission always is to provide a safe and secure environment for all community members. The HUPD never dismisses safety concerns of the community and, in fact, works closely with students, faculty and staff in identifying...
...Appleby noted that the Vatican did not reject the charter outright, which had been a very real possibility, and he remains hopeful it eventually will be Accepted and implemented nationally. "This is the church working," he explained. "It is unthinkable that the Vatican would not weigh in on this. The Vatican is requiring a period of reflection to focus in on the ragged edges of the policy that the bishops, under some pressure, formulated in Dallas...