Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Estimate their new choice--How do they see their options now in the wake of this new alternative you have offered them? Can they be expected to accept the advice, or can you convince them to agree...
...broke because we're going broke, nationwide. We won't accept anything less than 100 per cent parity or we'll have to be back next year," an Alabaman said last month. One way to gain parity, farmers feel, is to keep a contingent of demonstrators in Washington until the government grants the price increase. If this does not work, many plan a more drastic move: They will plow under their fields. This, they believe, will be their most effective action: it is the last card up their sleeve...
...change: for example, stronger provincial representation on Canada's Supreme Court and in other national institutions, and a bill of rights protecting French-and English-language rights. These would not only placate Western Canadians but might also make Lévesque seem unreasonable to Quebec voters should he refuse to accept them. All that is still part of the future. At present the stark fact is that Canadians may have to struggle harder than at any other time in their history to keep their future intact...
...began slipping behind the aggressive morning Post in both circulation and advertising revenues. When sold to Allbritton in 1974, the Star's losses were close to $8 million. Allbritton installed tighter financial controls, trimmed the staff by about a third, persuaded the paper's unions to accept a reduced work week and a pay freeze, and hired Jim Bellows away from the Los Angeles Times to be the Star's editor...
Next to their end-of-the-world expectations and their refusal to accept blood transfusions, the Jehovah's Witnesses are most noted for their dogged door-to-door evangelism. For more than three decades, that has paid off with one of the steadiest records of growth in Western religion. Yet according to the Witnesses' new Yearbook, the number of active members in the U.S. dropped by 2.6% (to 530,374) for 1977, the first decrease since World War II. Worldwide, the Witnesses, who often suffer persecution overseas, declined by 1%. Besides that, the number of baptisms of new U.S. converts...