Word: accept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Edward J. King said Saturday he would accept a compromise raising the drinking age to 20, even though he favors a 21-years-old minimum. The House last week approved a bill that would phase in a 21-year-old drinking age over the next two years...
...effort to get the stalled Middle East peace talks moving again, the U.S. last week asked both Egypt and Israel to send representatives to a Camp David summit with Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. Chances are that both sides will accept, but on Jerusalem's part not without a certain amount of rancor. Reason: in an annual report to Congress on the state of human rights around the world, Vance's State Department alluded guardedly to reports of "systematic" mistreatment of Arab security suspects from the occupied West Bank and Gaza. Although the department declined to endorse...
...plan calls for persuading workers to accept annual wage boosts of 7% or less by offering them tax credits equal to the difference between a 7% pay increase and the real increase in the Consumer Price Index, up to 10%. Business organizations still oppose the idea as inflationary in itself. Big Labor now finds real wage insurance at least palatable, if only because some workers might get some cash...
Atkins said he cannot say whether Gov Edward J. King will accept the compromise Senate bill, but that the governor's staff seems amenable to the compromise...
...sure that I accept Senator Goldwater's premise that we've abandoned Taiwan." It seems to me that in the difficult game of balancing power, and enhancing American security balancing power, we've managed to do that without abandoning Taiwan...