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They attempted to check in with the FDNY chiefs present, but were rebuffed.
Coloradans rejected a proposal to give tax credits for private school tuition, and South Dakotans rebuffed an effort to stop financing schools with property taxes.
His overtures are rebuffed; his son has come to think of his stepfather as his true father.
The papers flag another developing witness issue: the House managers have urged the Senate to ask Clinton to voluntarily testify, a request the White House has already rebuffed.
But Union Pacific rebuffed Pennzoil (actually, it was more a simple failure to call back than an explicit rejection).