Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Post reported that although Rosovsky has declined comment, sources close to Rosovsky said last night he is seriously considering the offer but has not yet decided whether to accept...
...ludicrous to expect that black Africans should willingly accept a hostile, racially alien nation on their continent, regardless of "historic rights." After all, would we tolerate such an entity in our own midst? In light of our own history of racial repression, not to mention the attempted eradication of native Americans and the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, I would have to think...
Another prime mover is Taul Watanabe, 57, who was briefly interned during World War II because of his Japanese ancestry but won his release, after petitioning President Roosevelt, to accept a law-school scholarship. Now a vice president of the Burlington Northern Railroad, he persuaded the presidents of six Japanese shipping companies - all of whom he knows - to use Seattle as their U.S. port. That move created 3,100 jobs, $50 million in annual direct benefits for the region and helped make Seattle one of the nation's leading containership ports. Watanabe was among the first to urge Dixy...
Whatever thoughts he might have had privately, Begin in his public statements did little to encourage the dreamers. During a Knesset debate last week over the proposed Cairo summit, he took a hard line on territorial concessions in exchange for peace. Said Begin: "We do not accept the demand for June 4, 1967, lines [referring to Arab insistence that Israel surrender land captured during the Six-Day War], nor the demands for the establishment of a so-called Palestinian state, nor the repartition of Jerusalem." Begin also took a passing swipe at Israelis who feel his government owes Sadat some...
Although the act would not have taken effect until next fall, many med schools said they would forego much of their federal money rather than accept this government interference...