Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...faster economic growth than at present is not likely to generate much more inflation as long as so much of the nation's manpower and machinery is underemployed. In fact, faster growth might well lower inflation in the short run by increasing productivity. Says Jasinowski: "Carter would not accept the slow-is-beautiful, let's-be-satisfied-with-4%-growth view that the President seems happy with...
...advises the King. The Franquistas also insist on an appointed upper house based on the Franco-style corporate system, rather than a popularly elected one. Because of the Bunker's opposition and the recent emergence of a center-right alliance of parties, Suárez may have to accept some modifications in order to obtain the two-thirds majority necessary for passage of the bill. Suárez had previously antagonized archconservatives by, among other things, taking the first steps toward the legalization of trade unions and all political parties except the Communists...
Harvard's college work-study program has had to accept fewer students this term than last year because the program spent more than half of this year's already-reduced budget on its summer work-study plan...
...forceful than diplomatic boycotts. Whether or not that happens, the Transkei will remain isolated from the mainstream of the black freedom movement in South Africa, a movement that the Soweto riots this summer have shown to be growing steadily. But today's ceremony shows only the degradation some will accept for a semblance of power; it in no way reflects the will of the people of the Transkei, or South Africa...
This prediction assumes that certain changes will take place by the year 2000.Third World countries, for example, are expected to double or treble agricultural output. Another assumption is that North America and Japan will double aid to Third World nations and accept more exports from them. Even if such changes prove slow in coming, there is at least some cause for cheer in the suggestion that the globe's natural treasures may not run out as soon as the pessimists have forecast...