Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pearson's new source of hope springs from a sudden weakening in Diefenbaker's Conservative leadership. Diefenbaker has long argued that Conservatives would never accept a flag that left out the Union Jack as a symbol of Canada's historic ties to Great Britain...
...right. He has overwhelming encouragement to move and an overwhelmingiy Democratic Congress to help him move. But in moving, he must be prepared to make enemies, unless he can somehow keep business and labor, moderates and liberals, dozens of often conflicting interests happily balanced. "I do not accept Government as just the 'art of the practicable,' " the President told a crowd in Austin on the eve of his election. "It is the business of deciding what is right and then finding the way to do it." There is little doubt that if Lyndon Johnson wants desperately...
...another move, the Council accept as "a well-written and well-thought-out expression of one point of view" a report on General Education prepared by the Student Committee on Educational Policy...
...campaign where both candidates are striving energetically for the label of liberal, Keating has waxed indignant at Kennedy's blanket condemnations of him as completely "against" a policy on the basis of selected votes opposing certain bills. But the debating points go to Kennedy, for even if people accept Keating's protestations that he is not against federal aid to education, the beleaguered Senator is still left to explain why he did not vote for the specific aid to education bill Kennedy has cited--a difficult task to accomplish well from a political platform...
...bill, the civil-rights bill, the anti-poverty program, and the medicare program. His dedicated service throughout his eighteen years in Congress has gained him the respect of fellow congressmen and has made him a leader of the moderate wing of the Republican party. It is hard indeed to accept as "mediocre" a man of such constructive accomplishments, a man whom the New York Times recently endorsed as "an enlightened, industrious liberal, sensitive to the needs of both state and nation...