Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cyrus Vance presented the plan to Begin and Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan at New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport as the Israelis were preparing to leave for home. Begin was, predictably, unenthusiastic; Dayan surprised his Premier by telling Vance: "If the Egyptians are willing to accept [this proposal], I am ready to accept...
...pursuit of modernization, China is now willing to accept the aid of the capitalist West. Last week alone, the Chinese negotiated a series of deals with the Western world that would have been inconceivable under Mao. At the Canton Trade Fair, Peking's main foreign trade showcase, the Chinese sold approximately $1 billion in goods to foreign countries, while their purchases amounted to about $600 million. According to the National Council for U.S.-China Trade, American businessmen sold the Chinese some $83 million in commodities, mostly industrial chemicals, and bought $62 million worth of textiles and arts and crafts...
...when they come to visit? (If the child insists on sharing a room with his partner the parents have every right, says Tish, to say: "Look, this is our house. You can both go to the hotel near by and pay for your own room if you refuse to accept the moral code of this house.") Generally Baldrige gives unmarried couples living together sympathetic though somewhat chilly treatment: "If they are breaking a moral law, it is their business and no one else's ... It has become ... a way of life. We must therefore cope with it as such." Baldrige...
...added, however, that he doubts the readiness of many Arabs to live in peace, "to accept us as a political entity in the Middle East, to acknowledge our right to live as free people in that land...
...Avildsen tries to pass off an ancient Newark concert hall as Lincoln Center, which it in no way resembles. Of course, if you attempt to foist off a romance as silly as this one, developing it in a totally banal fashion, then you must believe that the public will accept almost anything. Given Rocky's record, this is an understandable belief, but one rather expects Slow Dancing's performance at the box office may shatter...