Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...human rights around the world, and used foreign aid as a lever to pry loose such rights, 3) ignored diplomatic niceties in suggesting concessions that various factions must make in seeking peace in the Middle East, 4) taken on the politically dangerous task of asking the nation to accept an energy-conservation plan that will require sacrifices by millions...
...nuclear weapons and the support of human rights. But I have the impression that these remain impulses rather than thought-through policies. One has the feeling, for example, that no one looked at the new SALT proposals from the Soviet viewpoint and asked why Moscow should be expected to accept a deal so manifestly to American advantage. As for human rights, this is really a campaign, not a policy. One does not feel that the Administration has worked out its implications or decided how far to run with it. Nevertheless, it is refreshing. So far, the good far outweighs...
...industry colleagues, Bradshaw remains convinced that free enterprise alone cannot cope with the energy crisis. Says he: "The signals provided by the free enterprise system must be supplemented by governmental signals. Government must set the goals as well as the incentives and disincentives." Bradshaw would even accept Government price setting-but only on one product, crude oil, with the condition that the tag should reflect replacement costs...
...negotiations. Although Peres has a reputation for being rather hawkish, some Arab observers concluded that the Defense Minister was potentially a stronger leader than Rabin-a plus from their viewpoint. But they also wondered whether Peres-if indeed he manages to form a government-will have a mandate to accept the kind of territorial concessions that may be necessary for peace...
...that a number of other senior officers would follow him out of the government. But at a stormy 3½-hour meeting of the Superior Council of the Army, the hard-liners backed down; the officers expressed their "revulsion" at the government's action, but they agreed to accept it out of a sense of "patriotism...