Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jose," at the prospect of Kennedy's nomination. But last week he allowed that Kennedy might make a "fine" Justice. Liberals are mostly being noncommittal, but they will have trouble taking back their comments during the Bork fight, when some identified Kennedy as the type of conservative they could accept. Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe, who helped lead the opposition against Bork, describes Kennedy as "decent instead of dogmatic, sensitive instead of strident." Those may not be the qualities of a legal groundbreaker, but they are far from the worst qualifications for judging the most explosive issues in American life...
...similar malaise afflicts some workers at Continental. Employees still resent the way Lorenzo busted the pilots' union during its two-year strike that ended in 1985; the walkout began when he put Continental into bankruptcy proceedings and forced workers to accept 50% pay cuts. Some employees contend that Continental too is sloppy about maintenance. In October, one pilot says, he was told to fly a jetliner with a broken radar device into an area that was being buffeted by thunderstorms. When he refused, supervisors had the balking captain switch planes with another pilot, who agreed to fly the aircraft with...
...roots and my heart are in France," he says as he lights a Monte Cristo. But though he holds citizenship in both Britain and France, he doesn't want their official honors and no longer has any interest in being Sir James. "I wouldn't accept that title today," he says, "nor any other decoration from a government, such as the French Legion of Honor. I want to be free. I guess that's what having money really means...
While sleuths have yet to track down the change theifs, Oberlin officials have thwarted would-be counter-feiters by installing a new part in the change machines so that they will no longer accept photocopies...
Most damning is Brecht's indictment of the German people for refusing to accept responsibility for Hitler's rise. Two or three characters argue passionately, presumably in Brecht's voice, that if more people would speak out against injustice, they could resist the rise of such...