Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after three years' service. But DeLury, apparently unable to sell those terms to his men, demanded $600. After sporadic negotiations, the union staged a wild rally at city hall two weeks ago, virtually forced DeLury to call a strike. Said he, ducking an egg thrown at him: "I accept the motion...
...with control over the Guard his trump, seized the initiative from Lindsay by taking over the negotiations. He named his own mediation panel to supplant the mayor's and treated the outlaw union with unwonted deference. Rockefeller's mediators proposed a pay increase of $425. The union accepted immediately, and the Governor hailed the proposal as "fair and reasonable." Lindsay rejected it out of hand. Though the difference over wages had become seemingly insignificant, Lindsay was determined not to reward the strikers with a figure above what the union leadership had been willing to accept earlier. "A little...
Galbraith insists that the U.S. is in conflict "not alone with the Communists, but with a strong sense of Vietnamese nationalism" that has been captured by the guerrillas. Since military power is ineffective in the face of this intangible force, the U.S. should accept Viet Cong domination in those areas where the enemy now holds sway, and contest only those parts of the country that are controlled by the government or are necessary to assure the security of American forces. In many respects, this strategy closely resembles General James Gavin's enclave theory. Galbraith maintains, however, that his proposal differs...
...fear the glare of publicity, but should actually welcome it." Two brothers, Biologist Yuri Vakhtin and Writer Boris Vakhtin, denounced the trial's "abnormal atmosphere" and "court violations." Noting that their father had been killed in a Stalinist purge in the 1930s, they said that they could not accept a return to that "terrible time of lawlessness and bestiality." Evgeny Kushev, one of those who took the stand at the trial, complained in a letter about Komsomolskaya Pravda's distortions of his testimony. Writer Ginzburg's mother has threatened a libel suit against that newspaper for describing...
With support from the Anglo-Catholic American Church Union, of which he is president, Sterling will open his first rehabilitation center in Manhattan's Greenwich Village this spring, hopes to set up five more by 1970. PARDON will accept clergymen of any faith, find them living quarters and temporary secular jobs while they undergo up to 90 days of pastoral counseling provided by ministers with lengthy parish experience. Those in need of psychiatric care will be referred to hospitals and clinics. Sterling expects that at least a third of his clients will use PARDON as a "halfway house...