Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fairless blew off like a Bessemer converter. Did Murray think he could take him by the nose and lead him to a contract? Promptly and plainly he told Murray off. He would negotiate, but with no commitment in advance to accept anything. That was the basis on which Fairless had agreed to meet with the fact finders in the first place; the board itself had reiterated that details should be worked out in company-by-company bargaining. If that didn't suit Murray, then a steel shutdown would be on Murray's head. Up to that point Fairless...
...told him were wrong. Bevin, who loathed Beaverbrook, was quick to spot the error. In the cabinet meeting they started quarreling and Churchill had to intervene saying: "I really can't have two of my cabinet ministers carrying on like this," "Well,", said Bevin, "I won't accept those figures from Beaverbrook. I'll accept them only from Franks...
After 22 costly months, the strike of 1,500 printers on Chicago's five major daily newspapers came to an abrupt end last week. The settlement closely fitted the publishers' terms. President Woodruff Randolph of the A.F.L. International Typographical Union told his strike-weary printers to accept a $10 weekly wage boost (to $95.50)-the same offer he had high-handedly ordered them to reject six months ago, after Chicago's Local 16 had approved it. The strikers had lost $13 million in wages, and the I.T.U. had paid $1 i million in strike benefits and costs...
...biologist is not necessarily too grumbly about this--or at least I should not like to have you think that he is. He is perfectly able to accept, for a time being, a system of kinetc equations embracing the data of photosynthesis as picturing the known essence of the mechanism of this process. He also wants to learn the molecular inwardness of the matter, the kinetic mechanism with all its defects serving as a ladder toward specific experimental inquiry. He is not so crude as to look for a nexus of springs pulling dashpots through baths of hydraulic oil when...
...efforts are concentrated towards two main goals; to help our comrades of the interior of Spain whose directions we follow and leadership accept, and, to capacitate the emigrated youth who are meant to be an important democratic force in the future of Spain, for in our country, only a very restricted number of students have access to the present Universities, and the instruction they receive is limited, cautious, had totalitarian...