Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...creator hears of such the prayers universe; and and can lastly, intercede that in human affairs to answer them. Here is an unambiguously stated credo for a sect that, no matter how large and inclusive it be, is still only a sect whose doctrine is not accept able...
...science deals in faithless fact and that religion traffics in factless faith. The quote from Dr. Van Ness sums it up perfectly: "Any time religious beliefs come into conflict with the things we learn about the world, we must modify the beliefs." Any number of the scientific concepts we accept today may be simply convenient schemata that impose order upon the experiences we have collected so far. They may have little or no relation to "reality." The suspicion has been growing among many scholars during the past few decades that we are not so much "discovering" our scientific theories...
...North and South Viet Nam, East and West Germany, Red China as well as Nationalist China. When stunned newsmen pointed out that the rules of diplomacy require that one or the other of the split nations, or neither, be recognized, acting Foreign Minister Pheng Phongsavan professed amazement. "If they accept the laws of Laos, there will be no trouble," he declared, and added that, happily, the rival missions need not even see each other, since one could go "to Luangprabang and the other to Vientiane...
...required that all doctors conform to the plan, accept a schedule of fees fixed by the government, and not engage in any private practice on the side...
...also too ill to attend the meeting; and to President Robert E. MacNeal, 58, who was traveling in Europe. But even if all three had been there, the Curtis family and officers of the proud old company would have been in the minority-a position they had to accept last April when two new directors were added to the board through substantial stock purchases by New York investment bankers. And at last week's meeting, with some old-line directors of the company fully agreeing that drastic action was necessary, the board acted drastically: it fired President MacNeal from...