But integrating Vodafone into a single company will undoubtedly involve redundancies and some rebuffs to national pride.The biggest integration challenge will be in the United States.
After a few days I knew some bits of the Wikipedia article by heart, and started reciting them as rebuffs to my obsessions.
As with "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang," however, you cannot help being stirred by the reach and depth, the constant rebuffs to sloppiness, of a strong ensemble.
To understand how deep the state's regulatory resistance runs, one need only to listen to the state's attorney general, Greg Abbott, who often spearheads the Lone Star state's rebuffs to federal imperatives.
At its center is Lena (Yainis Ynoa), 15, a smart cookie whose virginity — and stern rebuffs to the neighborhood boys — owes less to lack of interest than to having witnessed the undiscriminating sex life of her lonely single mother, Lucy (Rosa Arredondo).
But even as Secretary of State Colin L. Powell met with the German foreign minister, Joschka Fischer -- in a session delayed after several American rebuffs to German entreaties for a meeting -- the administration dealt the Germans another snub: a refusal to invite Mr. Fischer to the White House.
