Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fear & Confidence. The Houston gossipists' spit-spat has been building ever since Roberts abruptly announced 20 months ago that after 23 years on the Press he was quitting to accept a better offer from the Post Press Editor George Carmack frantically placed long-distance calls for a replacement. When none appeared, he took a slow look around his own city room, finally tapped energetic Maxine, mother of two, who had worked for Roberts since 1956 and knew all of her old boss's news sources. "I was petrified." says Maxine. "I couldn't eat. I couldn...
...obvious source for skills would seem to be vocational high schools, but many a businessman hesitates to accept their graduates. President George Prezembel of Chicago's Midwest Machine Co. says: "It's all pretty sad. If you show them where to drill a hole, they can usually do that; but if their drill needs regrinding, they are stuck...
...Descartes, void space was nothing and therefore nonexistent. On the other hand, Newton conceived of the length, breadth, and depth of space as innate properties. Since space possessed absolute extension for Newton, he could not accept a finite Universe. Limits to the Universe should imply a meaningless space beyond...
...characteristically, Steve Kennedy demanded some basic agreements with the mayor before he would accept reappointment. He insisted on continuing his ban against moonlighting on the force, on the ground that cops cannot afford the divided loyalties involved in outside, off-duty jobs (permitted in the fire department). Wagner agreed. Kennedy also demanded a guarantee of a $600-a-year raise for his men to compensate them for their lost opportunities. For embattled Bob Wagner, fighting this year for his political life against Tammany Hall, the Kennedy ultimatum was too much. "I'm the mayor." he told Kennedy firmly...
...Hindu by religion and fearful that they will be relegated to second-class citizenship. Ceylon badly needs foreign investment, yet the Prime Minister backs a bill giving the government the right to expropriate all foreign oil property down to filling stations and trucks. She has urged Nehru to accept the repatriation of hundreds of thousands of "stateless" plantation workers originally imported from India, has simultaneously proposed a vindictive head tax on resident aliens, aimed chiefly at Indians. The government's flaming nationalism is reflected in Ceylon's increasingly neutral stand in the United Nations...