Word: acceptance
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...offer that North Carolina's department of transportation found too good to accept. "The Klan is atypical of the groups that have been involved with the program," explained James Sughrue, a DOT official. No other volunteers, except a cub-scout pack considered too young to be on the roads, had been turned down for the highway-cleanup project. Rockey Chapman, head of the klavern, admitted he wanted "that sign to advertise my group." He asked the state branch of the American Civil Liberties Union to sue for a reversal of the rejection. The A.C.L.U. was expected...
...final days leading up to the meeting, lobbying efforts by both sides reached a frenzied level. The vote in Lausanne will not be unanimous, and any prohibition of ivory trading will be at best a patchwork. As long as southern African nations such as Zimbabwe and Botswana refuse to accept the ban, ivory will be available for sale...
Even sobersided economists accept that there is something odd about the Italian experience. A recent scholarly study, The Italian Miracle, does smack of the supernatural compared with the German miracle, which was 99% hard work. But there are rational elements. Italians are great savers, squirreling away 15% of income, much of it in government securities. Fully 97% of the national debt is funded domestically, and nearly two-thirds of the negotiable state debt is in the hands of individuals. This mode of saving doubtless owes something to exchange controls and preferential tax treatment, but Italians have been willing buyers...
...immediate question at the center of this public diplomacy was whether the Israelis would accept Mubarak's invitation to a conference in Cairo to get the peace process going. Shamir's election plan was limited to begin with, then hedged with such stiff conditions -- excluding Arabs in East Jerusalem from the vote, for example -- that it made no headway with the Palestinians. Many in Israel were just as glad...
...accuse Bonn of trying "to turn East Germany upside down with a comprehensive % attack." West Germany flatly denied that it had reneged on a pledge to shut its doors to new refugees. "There was no such agreement," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Jurgen Chrobog. "We would never accept that German people should stand outside a German embassy with small children without giving shelter and care. The East Germans wanted to build a wall around our embassy. Now they're building a wall around themselves...