Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bombers, hijackers, arsonists and kidnapers must accept responsibility for the effects of their actions...
Aware that they could easily be used by Carter as foils in his drive to persuade the public to accept his program, most leaders of the oil and auto industries deliberately withheld their public fire?and ire. Said Frank Ikard, president of the American Petroleum Institute: "No segment of society is going to have everything its own way. But it would be tragic if strident divisiveness prevented the creation of a meaningful policy." Yet from Houston's Petroleum Club to Detroit's Athletic Club, leaders of the most affected industries were fuming...
Unshaken Resolve. To survive, the aliens gladly accept lower wages than Americans; their average hourly rate is often one-third or more below the standard. U.S. officials have found farm laborers in the West who were paid $15 a week. Unscrupulous employers threaten to turn over the illegals to the INS if they complain. Kickbacks to the boss are commonplace; migrant workers often bed down in open fields. "We live the life of a concentration camp," says an illegal Mexican in California. "It is cruel here, but one can at least...
...expansion of the armed forces, an extension of the draft for white males (from one year to two), and voluntary recruitment of white women and black men. The need, concludes the report, is for a "total national defense strategy, because South Africa is at war, whether we wish to accept...
...would far prefer a peaceful transition. [On the other hand] they will not use their influence to call off the armed struggle until they are absolutely certain that majority rule is coming in Rhodesia and that there will be an independent Zimbabwe. They are not going to accept words. They're looking for concrete specific actions. Wherever I went in Africa I met a wall of disbelief about virtually any words that were spoken by Mr. Smith. So I put it to Mr. Smith and the Rhodesian Front that they could make a start by changing now the racial...