Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should we accept the ruling of the 16th century Council of Trent? Let's go back to the 12th century and consider whether women have souls. Want to sign up, Archie Bunker Lefebvre...
Workers at Preterm Inc., a Brookline abortion clinic to which the University Health Services sometimes refers students, voted Wednesday to strike after management refused to accept union demands for a closed shop...
...police decoys took lie detector tests administered by Dr. Richard Raskin of the University of Utah. Raskin--a big man in lie detection who was ready to testify for the defense in the Patty Hearst trial until her defense discovered California doesn't accept lie detector tests as evidence even from Raskin--found that both decoys were telling the truth about the Howe incident...
...then framework oversimplifies the issue: it sets up a false dichotomy and thereby excludes alternative programs from consideration. Yet in the heat of political campaigns such specious reasoning is surprisingly effective; millions of Americans who had never heard of, much less read, the Humphrey-Hawkins bill were persuaded to accept it as a litmus test of a candidate's commitment to full employment...
...under half of the population -58% of the Protestants-say they have done personal witnessing, meaning that they have encouraged other people to believe in Christ or to accept him as Saviour...