Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...officials, in a March 24 reassignment order, told four carpenters that if they did not report for work on April 3--to accept painting assignments at their usual salaries--they would be taken off the payroll...
...example, a few years ago Napolitano could not accept lecture invitations from Harvard, Yale, MIT and Cornell, Lange said. Although "never formally denied a visa," he was "strongly advised against applying for one" by the State Department. Lange added...
...decision reflects culturally biased attitudes as well as political self-interest. The judge, as well as the lawyers representing the town of Mashpee, define a tribe in terms of a Western conception of government, ignoring the more informal governmental institutions the Indians accept as valid. The decision notes that because the state of Massachusetts switched the Indians' status from that of special Indian district to a town 100 years ago, the Indians ceased to be a tribe. The Indians, however, have long considered themselves a tribe regardless of any state declaration...
...most optimistic U.S. officials had expected any dramatic breakthrough in last week's Begin-Carter meeting, their third in eight months. Begin's hard-line pronouncements were only too familiar in Washington. He had refused to concede, as his predecessors had done, that Israel's acceptance of United Nations Resolution 242 meant that it was committed to an eventual withdrawal from the West Bank of the Jordan River, as well as from the Sinai and Golan Heights. He had declined to accept Carter's formulation, proposed in January on a trip to Aswan, that the Palestinians...
...French appeared to accept fully that "nothing has changed, yet nothing will remain the same," as Political Scientist Jean Chariot described the situation last week. Although the center-right coalition won an unexpected 91-seat majority in the 491-member National Assembly (291, v. 200), the balance of forces between the center-right and the left did not shift dramatically. Yet the Socialist-Communist alliance that had almost wrested the presidency from Giscard in 1974 and made stunning gains in the local elections in 1976 and 1977 now lay in ruins. The left's Common Program, calling for inflationary...