Word: accept
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...scale of U.S. life, and partly because in the U.S. subconscious, international tourism still means "we go" more than "they come." And even as it becomes the most important factor in the G.N.P., the U.S. service industry-salesmen, waiters, barbers, policemen, drivers, pilots, hotelkeepers-is still struggling psychologically to accept its role in dealing with tourists. Catering is not quite yet to the American taste, and the service trades are not much attuned to the insecurities of diffident, inarticulate foreigners...
...trying to give New York City $500,000 for an outdoor café in Central Park. And the city keeps bouncing his scheme. A couple of weeks ago, he even offered $1,000,000 to build public swimming pools in Negro areas if City Parks Commissioner Thomas Hoving would accept the café. "Irresponsible philanthropy!" roared Hoving. "Hartford is trying to manipulate potentially dangerous areas for his own end, but he has failed." With a rap like that, Hunt had to promise "a substantial sum" for the pools anyway. Meanwhile, he found another tin cup for his cash. Barely minutes...
...will not accept any research done by Cass for any firm." Goddard said last night. In addition, the FDA has urged all drug manufacturers who have relied on Cass to submit new data from other drug-testing firms...
Polish & Thrust. Though no stranger to finance, Sherfield will be the first nonbanker to preside over one of London's 16 elite merchant banks that, with Bank of England backing, "accept," or guarantee payment of, commercial debts. The lanky (6 ft. 4½ in.) son of Boer War Hero Brigadier General Sir Ernest Makins, Sherfield since 1964 has been chairman of the Industrial & Commercial Finance Corp., a collective venture of English and Scottish banks that provides credit to small businessmen...
...world will be an infinitely safer place when the self-conscious Soviets grow up enough to accept genuine criticism. That they have not done so is amply documented in this transcript of the trial last February of two Russian "underground" writers accused of slandering the Soviet system (TIME, Feb. 18). Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel, both 40 and both widely read, had been smuggling pseudonymous manuscripts to the West since 1956 under the names Abram Tertz and Nikolai Arzhak. When the KGB arrested them last fall, the world expected a quick, quiet, Stalinesque show trial, in which the pair would...