Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kind of quiet era of national relaxation over which Dwight Eisenhower governed so benevolently. Carter is a Democratic President assigned by the times to preside not over the sharing of wealth and prosperity, but over the setting of limits. In international affairs, he is forced to accept responsibility for events beyond Washington's control...
David Hinden, government prosecutor, agreed to accept a partial verdict, but Axel Kleiboemer, Flood's lawyer, objected. Kleiboemer said the jury's deadlocked situation provided "no indication their disagreement does not affect all counts...
Club vice president Kenneth G. Lucero '80 and secretary Nancy E. Achin '81 last Monday sent President Nixon a personal letter asking him not to accept the club's invitation to speak here in the spring. Lucero said yesterday the adverse publicity that followed the club's invitation "could only hurt the club...
...Carter will probably try to summon up the preacher's other techniques of salvation--gentle persuasion and cajolery--talents the President did not use to great effect in the last session of Congress. Before his plan has a chance of success, he will have to convince Congress to accept his "lean and austere" budget, Labor to hold down its wage demands, and Big Business to limit its price hikes. Along with miscellaneous other programs, these are the steps that Carter sees as necessary to curb rising prices...
...vice president and secretary of the Harvard Republican Club last Monday sent a letter to former President Richard M. Nixon urging him not to accept the club's invitation to speak here in the spring...