Word: rejections
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...Contrary to what his Advocate compatriots stated, outgoing President Saadi Soudavar '00 denied the rental changes and maintained that the Advocate will consider applications to rent their house on 21 South St., with the caveat that applications can be--and often are--turned down. "We reject applications for a variety of reasons which range from the fact that we are using the building that day, we don't need the money at the time, or we don't feel the party's (and by party I mean a person or group participating in an action or affair) intended event...
...there are people who reject any attempt to apply evolutionary theory to human behavior, and, as far as I'm concerned, they can go back to composing their annual letters to Santa Claus. Obviously, humans have been shaped by natural selection (though it's not always so obvious how). We are not the descendants of the kindest or wisest of hominids--only of those who managed, by cunning or luck, to produce a few living offspring. But is rape really an effective strategy for guys who, deep down in their genes, just want to be fruitful and multiply...
...percent organic popcorn around the Monsanto break room. But there was Juan Mayr of Colombia, president of the United Nations conference on biosafety, breaking into tears as he announced early Saturday that after several years of contentious negotiations, an agreement had been reached. The protocol would allow countries to reject genetically modified foods without scientific evidence of harm, and it would require exporters to label shipments that may contain added genetic material, but it would not force them to separate normal and altered agricultural products...
...University is trying to control its growth: Rudenstine says so many new ideas cross his desk every day that he is forced to reject 98 percent of them...
...Ehud Barak thought dealing with the Syrians was hard, wait till he faces the Israelis. The Israeli prime minister returned home from peace talks with Syria and the U.S. Tuesday to news that up to 100,000 Israelis had taken to the streets of Tel Aviv Monday night to reject any withdrawal from the Golan Heights. Worse still for Barak was the fact that two of his own cabinet ministers and several senior military officers were among them. The Israeli leader not only has to keep his own coalition together through negotiating a deal with Syria that involves exchanging control...