Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ruling in Roe v. Wade--a decision that many legal scholars have attacked as weak, and which may well be subject to reversal in the future. Rather, it simply stated that the state would not sanction, with public funds, a procedure it had judged to be immoral. Forced to accept abortion as legal, it refused to tolerate it as right, or to force the public to pay for it with their tax money...
Boston public school teachers voted late last night in a secret ballot to accept a new contract offer from the Boston School Committee, averting a threatened strike by thz 5500 teachers today...
...final vote tally in the secret ballot was 1708 to accept the contract and 1353 to reject...
Israel, which would be forced to move its military forces out of population centers to clearly defined garrisons, appears ready to accept the proposal, the newspaper said...
...eight conclave aides entered to accompany Jean Cardinal Villot, the church's Camerlengo or chamberlain, to the flustered Luciani, who was still seated in his place under a fresco of the baptism of Christ. The Camerlengo, his face wreathed in smiles, asked the ritual question: "Do you accept your canonical election as Supreme Pontiff?" Luciani at first replied, "May God forgive you for what you have done in my regard." Then he gave his assent, "Accepto," and announced the name he had chosen for himself as the new Pope: loannes Paulus. The choice immediately stirred pleased comments among...