Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...furor over what a handful of indecisive Senators will or will not accept, it is too easily forgotten that the Panamanians are also a party to the treaty. They too have compromised on the delicate issue of foreign intervention, and they have been pushed even further by the reservations. The opposition will doubtless goad them still more by urging reservations or amendments on the second treaty when it comes up for a vote. If the Panamanians should decide to abandon the treaty, the U.S. will be left with its great ditch, but it will be surrounded by a hostile population...
...union leaders were unsure whether miners would accept...
...welfare office received an authorization card with a letter saying simply that "someone else may need this more than we." Others who missed only a day or so of work felt that they had not suffered enough to deserve it. In some families quarrels broke out over whether to accept the charity. Among those who will not have to wrestle with their consciences, however, are employees of the town of Narragansett, about 90 of whom received the stamps. The Narragansett town council has since voted that the employees should return the largesse to the Federal Government...
...fiscal 1979 budget; having Carter urge state and local governments to cut sales and property taxes; increasing meat imports to hold back rising prices of food; calling a meeting of top executives of the 50 or so largest U.S. companies at which they would be asked to accept a one-year freeze on their own salaries, which would give them moral authority to ask for restraint by workers...
...Leafs doubts were subsequently confirmed by two more scientists. Studying baptismal and other records, University of Wisconsin Medical Physicist Richard Mazess and University of Massachusetts Anthropologist Sylvia Forman concluded that some of the local Methuselahs had lied about their ages and that previous researchers were all too eager to accept their claims. In fact, say Mazess and Forman, there is not a centenarian in the lot-the oldest villager...