Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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West Bank Arabs see the settlements as a threat-a view that Begin and his followers seem unwilling to accept. Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan even defended the communities as "constructive for peace," on the grounds that "I don't know anything more productive for peace than living together with the Arabs." Dayan conveniently overlooked the fact that the West Bank settlements are isolated from, and generally ignore, neighboring Arab villages...
...Trivers' model, non-backscratchers (who refuse to play the game) and overt cheaters (who accept favors but never return them) are long-term losers in the evolutionary game. Yet subtle cheaters who pretend to cooperate but do not are winners. As a result, Trivers believes, humans survived by evolving a complex psychology and set of emotions to keep the altruist from being exploited by cheaters: indignation, guilt, gratitude, sympathy and moralism...
During the last lap of his run for the presidency, Jimmy Carter was delighted to accept the belated support of organized labor. Once in the Oval Office, however, the conservative Georgia Democrat spent much time soothing largely Republican businessmen, while seeming to slight all sorts of cherished labor goals. Reflecting on Carter's lack of concern for such labor pets as common situs picketing, which would have enabled a single union to shut down a construction site, AFL-CIO President George Meany groused that Carter's record on labor legislation was "a lot of talking but very little...
...between the White House and the AFL-CIO. The President's endorsement of the three bills provided a needed lift for labor, which has been generally outflanked in its legislative battles this year by a revitalized coalition of business lobbyists. At the same time, labor has begun to accept the fact that it no longer wields the clout it once had among congressional Democrats; it needs presidential support and is willing to settle for less than its earlier grandiose goals to obtain...
...allowed, was a powerful attraction for corrupt dictators and Mafiosi, among others, seeking to hide their funds. Under the new rules, Swiss bankers are barred from providing active assistance to customers who evade taxes or export capital illegally from foreign countries. The code also forbids bankers to accept funds that they have reason to believe were acquired by acts punishable under Swiss law, such as fraud and trafficking in narcotics. However, the code does not require the banks to investigate the background of every customer to ascertain the origin of his money...