Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shoe people are as worthy as the textile industry but I won't accept the argument that if others can make textiles better and cheaper we should keep them out," Kindleberger continued. He asked what the shoe industry had done to improve technique and reduce costs in the six years that it had been complaining of rising imports...
Elliot claimed that the disarmament potentiations in Geneva, which have not a formally abandoned, have in fact a discontinued already because of Russians' lack of good faith and willingness to accept any form of policed test...
...accept everyone. After a ten-minute interview with George Gershwin, she turned him down. He came to her an established composer and she felt she could do nothing for him. "Never have I regretted the outcome," she says. "He died famous." She took only students from whom she could demand as complete a devotion to work as her own. And then she extracted the most she could from each of them. She commissioned Cop-land to write an organ concerto while he was studying under her, then performed the solo in the 1925 premiere conducted by Walter Damrosch...
...Definition. When news of the price rise broke, Chairman Avery Adams of Jones & Laughlin Steel said: "We certainly don't accept the President's statement that this was an irresponsible act. We are dealing with increases in labor costs of 50? an hour since 1958. That is clearly inflationary by any definition that any economist might want to apply...
...flat Soviet rejection of the draft treaty proposed by U.S. negotiators at Geneva Wednesday forces this government to re-evaluate Soviet intentions. With the United States making its requirements more flexible, the Russians' unqualified refusal to accept on-site inspection begins to look like a convenient means for circumventing agreement...