Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...union won an election at seven Stevens plants in Roanoke Rapids, N.C., but 2½ years later ACTWU officials still have not been able to get the company to sign a contract. Stevens accuses the union of making "impossible" demands. ACTWU officers reply that Stevens adamantly refuses to accept arbitration of grievances or a checkoff system for dues collections, and that without those provisions the union cannot function...
These fantasized societies are huge machines with no purpose but their own preservation. The people who comprise the mechanism have lost all individual sense of purpose. They only have direction if they accept a job and a place in their society--a role in keeping the aimless device in perpetual motion. Lem's joke is so big that it sucks in human effort and wastes lives. His punch line is the pain of purposelessness...
Grandmaison said yesterday he would be "pleased and proud" to accept the post if it is offered...
...Warren E.C. Wacker, director of UHS, said this week that although he does not dispute the facts in the case, he feels "comfortable" about UHS's legal position, largely because doctors generally accept that it is difficult to detect appendicitis in its early stages...
...towards wealthy, white males did not change. Roberta Benjamin, a member of the Governor's Commission on the Status of Women, summed up Harvard's attitude toward women when she stated that the 1960's was "a time when then-Harvard President Nathan Pusey could declare that Harvard could accept no additional women because Harvard's job was to train leaders, and guess who that didn't mean." F. Skiddy von Stade, dean of Freshmen, later said of women in the 1969 strike, "they were so insolent, the worst of the bunch. At least you have to respect the boys...