Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congress have held a position of impossible intransigeance toward each other for too long. The key issue of belief is gone; the substitute is a legitimate request. It is very much to be hoped not only that the House will agree, but also that the colleges will accept the NDEA compromise in cheerful spirit. If anyone is to decide that the substitute provision is obnoxious, let it this time be the students themselves...
...Cuba policy has accomplished nothing less than to encourage the people of this country to accept--almost to trust in--an eventual invasion of the island, so forcing politicians to make "hard" or "soft" attitudes toward Castro an enormously significant political issue. In an election year, when the powers that be are touchy and the powers that would like to be measure fierce accusations of columny and impotence lightly, the U.S. is alarmingly susceptible to warlike recommendations. The present temper of the Congress and of the press holds the very real capacity to bully the Administration into a stupidly aggressive...
...well raise another and more legitimate objection: the claim that renewing diplomatic relations with Cuba is politically impossible in this country; Americans simply will not accept it. Yet it ought to be pointed out that the people have never heard a reasonable and unemotional presentation of the problem. It is too easy to insist that everybody wants a Cuban invasion after everybody has listened to endless denunciations of Cuban Communism and Soviet aggression...
Within hours, the Justice Department was in court again. It did not accept Governor Barnett's dare and ask for a contempt citation against him. It asked, instead, for proceedings against the three top university officials, who had been superseded in authority by the Governor. But Federal Judge Sidney Mize, who had refused Meredith's pleas before, once again decided for Mississippi, holding that since the university officials had been preempted of their duties, they were not in contempt...
...putting up an effective political fight to write into the bill an amendment that would guarantee them the right to produce under license any new drug developed by the big companies. Hoping to get the bill passed by early next year, the big drug companies are expected to accept obligatory licensing on the assumption that some protection is better than none...