Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which still hopes to reap the hefty return that an operating nuclear plant can deliver. Public Service's Harrison proposes to restructure the debt, slash the utility's costs and raise electric rates by 15%. Rather than adopt the dissident plan as it stands now, Harrison claims, he would accept bankruptcy. Under court protection, he says, the utility might be able to carry out its own rescue strategy and keep its stake in Seabrook...
...life, she would admit that she no longer has to count the crumbs in cracker-box suburbia. If state-fair-quality dust balls grow anywhere in her snazzy Arizona rancho, it is in the box with those twelve honorary doctorates. Maybe she could do a column on rising to accept her appointment to the President's Advisory Committee for Women, only to feel the elastic turn coward and head south in her . . . nah. Bombeck knows what she is doing, and she honors the passage of time by retelling beloved old knee slappers. Her son, now grown, comes home...
...calls last week for indirect talks between the Sandinistas and the contra leaders to be mediated by Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo, Nicaragua's Roman Catholic Primate. "There's a new mood in Central America now," Arias told TIME. "I hope President Ortega will revise his position and accept dialogue." Two other signatories to the peace plan, El Salvador's President Jose Napoleon Duarte and Honduras' President Jose Azcona Hoyo, echoed Arias' appeal...
Unfortunately the Reagan Administration is not working toward peace. It continues to pursue a shortsighted and ideologial foreign policy of refusing to accept the Sandinista regime. Even as peace is being discussed the Reagan Administration is pressuring Congress to approve more military aid for the contras. One can only be hopeful that the Nobel will give Arias credibility in the halls of Washington, D.C. Immediately after winning the peace prize the Costa Rican leader asked Congress not to approve any more aid for the contras. House Speaker Jim Wright said that Arias' Nobel spelled doom for contra aid in Congress...
Piniella did not talk with Steinbrenner for almost a month after missing a scheduled call from his boss on August 3. Piniella later apologized for not being in his hotel room to accept the call...