Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...changing the terms of the bargaining. On Tuesday Acting Foreign Minister Abol Hassan Banisadr sent a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim. The letter implied that the hostages could be released if the U.S. agreed to turn over the Shah's personal fortune to Iran and "at least accept the investigation of the guilt of the former Shah and its consequences." The letter omitted any specific demand for the Shah's return. Some officials saw the beginnings of a compromise here, but Banisadr said later the new terms really meant "the return of the Shah...
...steeply on initial reports that Iran would withdraw its deposits from U.S. banks, then rebounded in nervous surprise at the news that Washington was freezing the assets before they could be withdrawn. When rumors circulated in Europe and New York that Iran would counteract the move by refusing to accept dollars as payment for its oil delivered to any nation, the U.S. currency began to gyrate all over again. Brokers and traders passed the week wearing looks of astonishment at what might come next...
...them got notices from the Bureau of Indian Affairs that the titles to the land on which they have lived for generations may be invalid: the land may actually belong to the Indians. The whites probably face no real threat of eviction because many Chippewas seem willing to accept a compromise under which they might be given an equivalent amount of Government-owned land. But whites say that their property values have been depressed by uncertainty...
Harvard currently faces the same asbestos waste problem as the rest of Massachusetts, DiBerardinis said. No dump cites accept asbestos in the state and it is illegal to take it across state lines, he explained...
Policymakers are radically changing their views about unemployment. Even liberal economists no longer consider "full employment" to be a 4% rate of unemployment, but a 5.5% rate. That means, compared with the past, the U.S. is prepared to accept 1.5 million more Americans out of work before Washington policymakers start pumping up the economy in an inflationary way to fight unemployment. A higher level of joblessness is tolerable today because so many more people are at work, and thus, if one family member loses his or her job, there is a better than 50% chance that another family member...