Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, earlier this week told members of the South House Social Committee that they may not accept free Anheuser-Busch beer and free gifts from Universal Studios for use in their party...
...Times reached a settlement with the last of its four striking unions early Monday, when members of the Newspaper Guild, consisting of reporters and editors, voted 226 to 121 to accept a three-year contract. The agreement calls for an average weekly salary increase of $23 in the first two years of the contract and a $22 increase in the third year...
...basic problem is still Taiwan, just as it was when Richard Nixon began the normalization of relations with China six years ago. The Communists insist that the U.S. close its embassy in Taipei, abrogate its 24-year-old mutual defense treaty with Nationalist China, and accept the Communist claim that the offshore stronghold is simply a province of the People's Republic. "We are talking about recognition," Chinese Vice Premier Teng Hsiaoping said during his current visit to Tokyo, but "on these three conditions we are waiting for the U.S. to make up its mind...
...Arab world's second largest oil producer (after Saudi Arabia) and has a large, Soviet-supplied army. It would like to station some of its forces in Syrian territory opposite the Israeli border, but after their years of quarreling with the Iraqis, the Syrians are reluctant to accept such an arrangement. According to Iraqi sources, the new agreement will merely permit Iraqi troops to move into Syria "whenever they are needed...
...German soldier turned peace activist who attacked the rising might of the Nazis and his country's secret rearmament. When Von Ossietzky won the prize in 1935, he was in a Nazi concentration camp; Adolf Hitler was so enraged by the decision that he forbade Germans henceforth to accept the Peace Prize...