Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rule is that birds reaching North America through human assistance cannot be counted, touching off speculation on whether the Western Reef heron that drew hundreds of birders to Nantucket, Mass., in 1983 actually came over from Africa as a stowaway on a boat. The ABA checklist committee voted to accept the bird...
...reasonable price. The delegation from the civilian space agency Glavkosmos visited Washington and Houston, offering to loft U.S. satellites for about half the price of a ride on the European Ariane rocket. To assuage U.S. fears that technological secrets would be compromised, the Soviets even offered to accept the satellites in sealed packages...
...response from American companies was short of nyet, but it was a decided not yet. Not only does federal law prohibit the transfer to the U.S.S.R. of the high-tech electronics used in spacecraft, but no one seems willing to accept Soviet assurances. Apollo Astronaut Walter Cunningham spoke to the Soviet group and later dismissed the proposal. Said he: "We'd be naive to think they're not going to peek under the covers to look at our hardware...
...hate to admit it, but Gorbachev is giving the arms-control talks fresh and helpful impulses. He is putting forth concessions that no other Soviet leader has ever made. If the U.S. does not respond soon, a historical chance will be missed. We have no option: we have to accept Gorbachev's offers...
...black and white. That was clearer than ever last week after a strong swing to the right in a whites-only national election. A jubilant State President P.W. Botha, whose party increased its seats in Parliament, went on national television after declaring victory and said, "The outside world must accept that the white electorate is here to stay and has a special duty in South Africa." To Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu, one of the country's best-known blacks, the election carried a very different lesson. Said the 1984 Nobel Peace laureate: "We have entered the darkest...