Word: accept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, the Soviet Union has become more willing to accept such % solutions, including ones that require sending Sergeant Hernandez home from Angola. Secretary of State George Shultz last week commented privately to Western diplomats that the Soviets have played what he called "a remarkably constructive role" in southern Africa and elsewhere...
...these military expenditures. In fact, Reagan has mortgaged the future prosperity of America by tripling the gross national debt. While his subordinates would have us believe that Congress is responsible for these deficits, it is the President who has always submitted unbalanced budgets--and he, therefore, who should accept the blame...
...response to the controversy, Georgia President Fred Davidson ordered the university's coaches not to accept any more partial qualifiers. Because this rule would place Georgia's teams at a competitive disadvantage, the coaches successfully lobbied the Southeast Conference (SEC) to adopt the regulation for all of its member schools...
Later that month the poker-faced monarch humbly presented himself before a moved and astonished General Douglas MacArthur to accept full responsibility for all his country's martial transgressions. In 1946 Hirohito renounced the "false conception that the Emperor is divine." Commoners were no longer forbidden to look at his face. The state confiscated most of his $250 million fortune...
...controversy began to heat up in 1987, when many rental agencies removed the ceiling on customer damage liability, which was typically $3,000, and began holding motorists responsible for the full value of the cars they were renting. That threat helped car-rental clerks persuade more customers to accept the CDW. Acknowledges Russell James, a vice president at Avis: "Many companies were abusing it. They were gouging the customer." Many consumers were already covered but did not realize it, since about 60% of all insured motorists carry rental insurance as part of the coverage for their personal cars...