Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...treaty leaves the difficult task of inspection mainly to the superpowers, who alone have the resources to snoop along the sea floor. Then, too, the negotiators left unresolved some technical questions of geography. Will those Latin American countries that claim territorial waters up to 200 miles beyond their shores accept a twelve mile limit? Should the Gulf of Riga, the Sea of Okhotsk, the East Siberian Sea and parts of the Black and White Seas, all of which Moscow claims as its own waters, come under the treaty...
...together in groups to cover risks. Informal transactions involving millions take only minutes and are closed by an underwriter hastily scribbling his initials on a broker's risk slip. This organization has effectively tapped private capital while avoiding the overhead of a ponderous corporation. Yet individual members, who accept unlimited liability for insurance they underwrite, can lose heavily. In the past two underwriting years, Lloyd's 6,000 members were each, on average, $22,800 out of pocket. Recently, Lloyd's revealed that its membership -and source of capital-was noticeably diminishing...
...resolved that the Student Association cannot accept this action and calls for a vote of no confidence and resignation of the chairman...
Baxendale refused to accept a friendly amendment which would only have censured Hokanson. After 20 minutes of debate, the resolution was tabled until next Wednesday...
...Those accepting this objective implicitly accept the likely corollary: A South Vietnamese government dominated by the National Liberation Front. In the long run, such a government may be in the best interests of the South Vietnamese; it is in any case infinitely preferable to a continuation of the present...