Arizona voters in Mesa and Queen Creek recently rejected a local sales tax increase that was to be used to build a stadium.

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"The worst of the worst is a bad guy actually using a gun, " Walsh said, adding that the 1.5 million gun sales rejected by a failed background check was "a record of success" regardless of how many prosecutions ensued.

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It all came to a head in 2010, when the FSA announced new rules on future PPI sales and demanded that lenders go back through old rejected complaints, and also old sales where there had been no complaint at all, to see if past sales met new standards.

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Tom Siebel, a star Oracle salesman, left in 1990 to found Siebel Systems when Ellison rejected his idea for a sales-force product.

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Meanwhile, voters in the second-largest US city rejected a measure to raise the sales tax rate, by a wide margin.

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Just a year ago, for example, Ohio voters rejected a 20% boost in the sales tax by an astonishing margin of 80% to 20%.

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Although the Senate has rejected an attempt to block debate on expanded background checks for gun sales, leaders say debate over the actual bill could last weeks.

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The judge in the case later rejected Apple's call for the sum to be increased and a sales ban on some Samsung handsets.

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