After stiffing bondholders for over three years, the government is now making them an offer that they should indignantly refuse: It will pay bondholders about 30 cents on the dollar.

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An older person should never refuse treatment because they're having difficulties with transport or caring for a relative.

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But if someone refuses to stop, the public is advised to inform park wardens, and should someone refuse to stop smoking they could be fined.

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It's one of the enduring mysteries of economics: Why do people refuse to act the way economists predict they should?

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Refuse to license them at all if they should so wish.

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The poll indicates that nearly eight in 10 believe full-body scanners should be used in U.S. airports, while 15 percent said they would refuse to go through one of the machines if asked to do so.

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When boards reject proposals for additional disclosure of conflicts of interest, when they refuse to investigate wrongdoing that has been brought to their attention, they should be held personally liable for any loss to the fund.

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While Bettelheim tells us that fairy tales help us adjust, Jack Zipes has said the opposite: that the value of fairy tales is that they teach us not to adjust, because the oppressive society in which we live is something we should refuse to adjust to.

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