Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...encourage them. A big factor in this movement is a growing awareness among the satellites that conventional Communism-particularly when applied to an overall scheme designed chiefly to benefit the mother country-simply does not work as an economic system. The breakup began with Rumania's refusal to accept Russian directions at the 1961 COMECON meeting...
Nonetheless, because Thant for the first time urged a mutual truce rather than a unilateral U.S. deescalation, the Administration moved with alacrity to accept his proposal as "constructive and positive." Hanoi thereupon broadcast a scathing denunciation of Thant for having made "no distinction between the aggressors and the victim of aggression," while Peking branded him "an errand boy for Washington...
...accept this committee's proposed statement of policy and am directing all agencies of the Government to implement it fully," declared Johnson...
...Code of 1926 declares it unlawful for any member of Congress to accept "any money or thing of value" intended to influence his action on any pending issue. He is also prohibited from accepting compensation for helping to procure "any contract" from any U.S. agency. But what is a "thing of value"-and what constitutes influence? Today most legislators follow the rule of accepting as gifts only "what can be eaten or smoked in a day." Others set some monetary limit, for example, $5. Quips Ohio Senator Stephen Young: "I arbitrarily declare every bottle of bourbon worth...
...into Somaliland, but they have also won more trouble than they bargained for. Before the week was out, legionnaires rooted thousands of dissident Somali tribesmen out of their tumble-down shanties in Djibouti and herded them into barbed-wire concentration camps near the Somalia border. Somalia thereupon refused to accept any more deportees, leaving the tribesmen imprisoned in French Somaliland as a source of embarrassment-and potential trouble-for France...