Word: accept
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After 60 days the President's Board of Inquiry must report on progress and specify management's last offer. Within 15 days-at least five days before the injunction expires-the National Labor Relations Board must take a secret ballot among workers to see whether they will accept the offer...
...keeps an apartment in the city, a home at Valley Forge). Result: Stassen became one of the most soundly defeated Republican candidates in Philadelphia history-433,298 to 227,742. Said Childe Harold: Philadelphians had not voted against him, but merely shown "their unwillingness at this time to accept my program." Cried he: "I'll never give up my participation in political affairs...
...rights. The Greenville Delta Democrat-Times called Mississippi-born Judge Dale's bluff better than the fulminating Northern papers: "Nothing could have occurred that would go further to establish the point that a federal anti-lynching law is necessary and that the state is incapable or unwilling to accept the responsibility of prosecuting lynchers . . . Every citizen who expects protection of himself and for his family should fear for his safety if this is the true climate of opinion in Mississippi...
...greeted the Sudanese and put them up at Tahra Palace. From then on, it was merely a matter of the routine haggling that each side expected of the other. Nasser stepped in personally to raise Egypt's compensation offer to $43 million, and the Sudanese were happy to accept after getting a greatly increased share (18.5 billion cubic meters v. 4 billion in the 1929 pact) of the increased water supply to be accumulated when Egypt's Aswan High Dam holds back the vast amount of wasted water that normally goes down into the Mediterranean every year...
...Aquilino Boyd, 38, a handsome lawyer from a Panamanian "best" family, who would like to be elected President next year. For months, Boyd has been whipping up feeling. "Panama, like Egypt," he said, "could not build her own canal because she is a small nation and had to accept foreign aid. Every day the idea is gaining force that eventually Panama should regain jurisdiction." What that meant precisely, he never said, but he did not want the canal itself for Panama. Instead, he would settle for a fifty-fifty split of gross canal revenue (fiscal 1958: $83 million). Boyd touched...