Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brown talks about the failure of the Great Society social programs of the '60s, does he believe, as does Carter, that "Government cannot eliminate poverty...or save the cities...or cure illiteracy?" Does the man who once marched with Cesar Chavez and worked diligently for Eugene McCarthy in 1968 accept our modern-day Grover Cleveland's negativist beliefs on these issues...
...program is seeking additional funds from other private foundations in the U.S., but will accept no funds from foreign governments, Cohen said. "How could you take money from a government when you're scrutinizing it?" he added...
Understandably, Soviet officials informed both Washington and Ottawa that they would be more than willing to join the search. U.S. officials properly let the Canadians deal with the offer-and Trudeau obviously was in no hurry to accept Russian help. Plainly, the U.S. and Canadians wanted some time to study any recovered fragments. Western scientists could learn a lot about Soviet space engineering, its radar capability, and just how close the Russian spy satellites had come to being able to distinguish the movement of U.S. submarines in the oceans' depths...
...President faces a particularly rough time in trying to impose reforms on business. There is little likelihood that Congress will accept the White House proposal to phase out the Domestic International Sales Corporations (DISC) program, under which companies can defer taxes on some of the profits they earn by exporting, or that it will end deferral of U.S. taxes on corporate profits earned and reinvested abroad. The legislators are against anything that might put U.S. businessmen at a disadvantage with their European and Japanese competitors. Says Republican Congressman Barber Conable of New York, a collector of Indian tomahawks who sounds...
...trade-restricting moves by various countries cost the world $30 billion to $50 billion in potential international commerce over the past three years. Noting the political pressures, one Geneva negotiator fears that the meeting could end by simply "defining gentlemanly rules for conducting a trade war." Strauss does not accept this. Said he: "Not everyone is going to get what he wants, but everyone is going to get what he needs...