51.   Mrs. McDonald rejects criticism that the tribunal has wasted time and money.

52.   Nash said he rejected such criticisms and maintained that his shows focused on much more than lurid images.

53.   Newman rejected the criticism, saying that studying isolated results from phonics instruction, such as word recognition, constituted a valid approach to research.

54.   Officials there reject the criticisms and insist that the new program is a prudent if costly step into unexplored territory.

55.   Professors reject criticism that they might inflate grades to keep students from dropping out.

56.   President Bush, charged with defending the nation from attack, rejects these criticisms.

57.   Piazza rejected the criticism as unfounded.

58.   Rejecting the criticisms from Europe and the Arab world, he insisted that the United States had been steadily engaged.

59.   Republican leaders vigorously rejected criticism that they were impeaching Clinton over circumstances stemming from a private, consensual affair.

60.   Reed rejected such criticism.