Word: accept
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...nothing more than I expected," said Schapiro. It was obviously not what the federation expected. "The verdict," said President Charles Solomon, "is at variance with that of the World Bridge Federation rendered on the scene, and while the evidence was fresh. It is doubtful whether the federation can accept the decision...
Telephone officials were not dismayed. Said one: "Some of the calls may turn out to be pretty low-key emergencies, but we'll have to accept them in all fairness to the ones which may really save a life, prevent a hold up, or get aid faster to an accident." If the six-month experiment works out, other Bell systems across the country are expected to follow suit. If so, they will only be catching up. Paris has already begun installing pay phones direct access to the operator in emergencies, and Londoners have long able to get help...
...seminars on hypothetical trial problems. In the primary text, The State Trial Judge's Book, a budding jurist is taught such crucial arts as how to determine whether evidence is relevant as well as admissible under the ever more complex rules of exclusion. As for deportment: "He should accept this change [from lawyer to judge] modestly, graciously and with dignity. He is not required to be a jolly good fellow nor to depreciate himself over his new lot." Judges old and new also study the ten judicial commandments composed by Chief Judge Edward J. Devitt of Minnesota...
...abortive effort to settle the airline strike, the President had persuaded carriers to accept a package settlement amounting to a 4.3% increase in machinists' wages and other benefits. It actually made little difference that the machinists, defying their own union leadership, later voted down even that hefty hike. The fact was that Johnson himself had ignored the guideposts-withal his rationale about airline "productivity"-and now the doors were wide open to above-the-line moves by both labor and management in all industries. That point was soon proved when the steel industry last week imposed major price increases...
...least twice as many eligible candidates as we could accept," Swanger declared, and that accounts for the proposal to double the program's size. But he would also like to shift from a commuter project to a residential...