Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What is needed now is not to accept and build upon popular misapprehensions about the scope of the decisions, but to point out the baseless-ness of those fears," to declared...
...interview last month, Dunlop cited the machinists' strike as one more example of the failure of the economic guidelines as an "effective policy." In highly mechanized industries such as the airlines, he explained, productivity increases rapidly, and workers are unwilling to accept settlements based on average increases in productivity for the economy as a whole...
Rosenthal noted that the government, having neglected its regulatory responsibilities, was likely to complicate the issues by further intervention. He cited the machinists' refusal to accept the contract worked out Friday and backed by President Johnson, as "proof that you can't really impose a settlement from outside...
...What often troubles cases like the Deutsches' is the key question of "causation in fact"-the same issue that complicates cancer suits against tobacco companies. Clearly, the law cannot accept the fact that every event has causes reaching to the ends of time. The law's causation tests ask, for example, whether the event would have occurred "but for" the defendant's conduct: his conduct is not a cause if the event would have occurred anyway. Though a hotel failed to install proper fire escapes, it is not liable for the death of a guest who succumbs...
...purely quantitative measurement of piety, parochial-school graduates rank statistically higher than those with a secular education. For example, 86% of U.S. Catholics who went to church-run schools attend Mass regularly, compared with 64% of Catholics schooled secularly. While 66% of parochial-school Catholics are inclined to accept the church's ban on contraception, only 46% of Catholics who went to secular schools...