Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even so, Dirksen was far from ready to accept what he thought was a bad bill?and the shouts of professional civil rights men bothered him hardly at all. "If the day ever comes," he said, "when, under pressure or as a result of picketing or other devices, I shall be pushed from the rock where I must stand to render an independent judgment, my justification in public life will have come...
Beneath his affability, Unger is a hard operator. When Premier Souvanna Phouma last week balked at allowing U.S. fighters to accompany reconnaissance flights, Unger called on his old bridge partner. Just what cards he used were not revealed, but one rumor had it that Unger warned Souvanna to either accept the armed escorts or get set for more drastic U.S. intervention. By week's end, Souvanna seemed once again to be seeing eye to eye with Unger...
...standards, Atlanta's two existing dailies have earned such opprobrium. Both are liberal in outlook, and have long held that it is morally wrong to discriminate on the basis of race. The Constitution was one of the first and is still one of the few Southern papers to accept the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision on public school integration. Both papers continue to champion the role of reason. Only last month Constitution Editor Eugene Patterson argued that "the central weakness of the old Southern segregationist position" is its effort "to justify wrong instead of trying to rectify...
...when she sings, for French rock-'n'-roll crowds come in two forms, the idolaters, who are mad insane, and the snarlers, who are mad angry. "They hate us, they really despise us," says Sylvie. "They hate the way we sing, but mainly they can't accept the fact that young people are big successes. They are nasty. They organize leagues. It's terrible...
Suggestion boxes were once considered a joke, and some employees still treat them that way. Most managers now take them quite seriously, have lately started to solicit suggestions from engineers and supervisors as well as clerks and production workers. Companies accept some 30% of the suggestions, save an estimated $200 million a year from the ideas they take out of the box. Says Douglas Aircraft President Donald W. Douglas Jr.: "These ideas help us improve our competitive position through reduced costs." Ford is so eager for ideas that employees who win the maximum $6,000 award also receive...