Word: accept
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With new rules scheduled to go into effect this week, members of Congress urged the railroads to accept another delay while Congress deliberates on the President's ICC plan. By agreeing to a 30-day postponement of the announced deadline, the railroads preserved intact their record of going along with every Government request during the four years of the dispute...
...long since got used to the ways of this made-in-America faith, but the rest of the world often treats it as an unwanted import. In Sweden, young male Witnesses regularly spend a total of ten months in prison for refusing to accept compulsory military service. In the Soviet Union, dozens of Jehovah's Witnesses are found guilty each year on charges that range from subversion to smuggling...
Protestants on Tradition. The dialogue with Rome has contributed to a new concern of Faith and Order's ec umenical theologians-the nature and scope of Christian tradition. Both Rome and Orthodoxy accept apostolic tradition as well as scripture as a fount of Divine Revelation; virtually all Protestants follow the rule of sola scriptura -the Bible alone as the repository of God's message. Yet much of the talk at the Conference was devoted to the way tradition has shaped man's interpretation of the Bible. One probable consequence of this new concern: a re-examination...
...dogs and canned stews, or is brought in as canned corned beef. Last year Argentina got only $15.3 million of this business (one of its biggest customers: Campbell Soup Co. for its beef soups)-and it is working to get a lot more. The U.S. has now agreed to accept frozen cooked beef, provided it is from Argentine packers who meet U.S. Agriculture Department standards; only one packer has passed so far. This eventually could open up to Argentine beef the lucrative U.S. TV Dinner trade...
...diocese is said to be on the boil," says the Rt. Rev. Mervyn Stockwood, Bishop of Southwark. "If that is so, I accept it as a compliment. Boiling water is better than tepid. It can cleanse and generate power." Measured against British coolness to the Anglican faith (of 27 million baptized members, only 3,000,000 are registered on parish rolls), the Diocese of Southwark is indeed bubbling. And Bishop Stockwood, 50, a charming and worldly man in whom humility coexists with vanity, gives it another stir almost daily. In the process, he has become perhaps the most storied bishop...