Word: accept
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Looking at Simonov's work one finds Communism rarely mentioned. The emphasis is rather on nationalism and on people. Communism is affirmed indirectly, however, because the people and nation about which Simonov cares all accept it. One is reminded of a passage in Days and Nights in which a priest, the father of one of the soldiers is being described: "... he was a powerful man, and sometimes a rough one. But the father had never known hatred. He had not loved the demobilized Red Army soldier, Stepanyuk, who had opened a branch of "The Society of the Godless...
...problem of diverting our energies to the wretched of the world, however, is one for political leadership more than scientific know-how. We cannot adopt the means used by, say, the Soviet government to coerce its people into sacrificing for their children's world without accepting more of its premises than we are prepared to accept. Therefore our problem is to persuade ourselves that the sacrifice is worth it. That is a task for politicians. It was an ex-haberdasher from Missouri, and not a scientist, who was President when the Marshall Plan went into effect. And even the "closed...
...possibility of a deal was suggested by stocky, wavy-haired Judge J. Cullen Ganey, who feared that otherwise the cases would drag on for years. In months of behind-the-scenes negotiations, often in Judge Ganey's chambers, both sides worked out a tentative agreement: the Government would accept nolo pleas in 13 of the cases, but would expect defendants in the other seven cases to plead guilty. Judge Ganey has indicated that, in ruling on the pleas, he intends to go along with the Government's request...
...Statler Hilton built before World War II cost $6,700 a room; the Pittsburgh Hilton, finished late last year, cost $12,500 a room), Tabler says that unnecessary expenses due to obsolete building codes "can break a hotel." Older cities are not always the most backward. Dallas refused to accept a bathtub drain trap that Boston had accepted about 50 years ago. Tabler did battle, got the code updated, saved $15,000 on that one change alone...
Progress Abroad. Tabler runs into more resistance to new ideas among U.S. building inspectors than European. "Europeans are eager to accept any new idea we develop that is approved by the fire underwriters," he said. "The London Hilton would cost 10% to 15% more if we were building it in New York." The British accepted easier-to-install copper plumbing and approved a modern plumbing layout that eliminates 80% of the pipe. New York will not, because the plumbers' union objects. Any attempt to change a code brings a cry from labor unions and trade associations. The plumbers complained...