Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inconceivable, even with the most naive faith, to accept the fact that God sold out the black race until the year 1978. It's far easier to believe that the Mormon creed did just that...
...Russians as people, they regard them as indispensable allies. The central fact of Cuban economic life is the 16-year-old U.S. trade embargo, or "blockade," as the Cubans call it. One of the political realities that make Castro's brand of totalitarianism easier for the Cubans to accept is the looming hostility of Cuba's giant neighbor to the north...
...meeting shouting and cursing. The decision, in his view, "will lead us all to another round of wars. I will go and prepare the army for the next war." The Labor opposition was also sharply critical. "What is the point of giving an answer that nobody will accept?" demanded Opposition Leader Shimon Peres. "Who needs a decision that by its very nature is a neither-nor reply?" Added former Premier Yitzhak Rabin: "It is ridiculous that the three main Cabinet members cannot agree on a decision like this...
...Administration is particularly anxious for moderate postal and railway settlements for several reasons. It badly needs to erase the unfortunate precedent that it set earlier this year when, to get coal strikers back on the job, the White House pressured the coal operators to accept an inflationary 38% increase in wages and benefits over the next three years...
...Chief George Meany several weeks ago and tried-in vain-to sweet-talk him into supporting a general wage hold-down. As a union official who attended that White House session told TIME Correspondent Richard Hornik: "Carter came in with his little sermonette, and when we did not accept everything he said, he stopped listening to us. He should realize that meetings like these are not Sunday school...