Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Trodden and DeGuglielmo's three council supporters did not accept Dunphy's explanation. One of the councillors--Daniel J. Hayes Jr. moved unsuccessfully to dismiss Dunphy...
...Instead of asking assurance that the talks would be "productive," he asked only for "reasonable hopes that they would be productive." The hardening seemed to come on military reciprocity. "The other side must not take advantage of our restraint as they have in the past. This nation simply cannot accept anything less without jeopardizing the lives of our men and our allies." And the "first order of business" if talks do begin, said Johnson, should be a "true cease-fire...
...believe that Johnson has been "cooking the books," as they say in the House of Commons, in order to make his spending and deficit forecasts seem smaller than they will actually turn out to be. Mills insists that the Administration must hold the line on expenditures before he will accept a tax increase. The G.O.P. position, maintains Republican Leader Gerald Ford, is still that the best way to curb inflation is to cut spending. Neither Mills nor Ford has offered any proposals for retrenchment...
...driver must buy it or post equivalent financial security as soon as he is involved in a serious accident or gets convicted of a serious driving offense. And whichever alternative he chooses, he is in trouble. With a damage claim hanging over his head, few if any insurers will accept him as a future risk. If he posts personal security, he may lose his home or savings...
...states have "assigned-risk" plans, requiring every insurance company to accept a quota of castoffs, whom they sometimes charge 150% above standard rates for minimum coverage. For some accident-prone drivers, even that price may be a bargain, but insurance companies have been so fast and loose about canceling policies that many of those dumped into the assigned-risk pool do not deserve it. In 1964-65, for example, almost 70% of New York's assigned-risk drivers had clean driving records...