Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only to have most of them veer off to the U.S. Jerusalem complains that Jews who use exit visas for Israel to get out of the U.S.S.R. should go to Israel. So there was some Israeli gloating when the U.S. had to confess that it would be unable to accept most of the 300,000 emigres, many of them Jewish, who are expected to be leaving the Soviet Union during the next year. Israel said it would happily take in 100,000 Soviet Jews by 1992. There is a good chance, however, that at least some of the newcomers might...
...face of dwindling landfill space in their own countries, many companies in industrialized nations simply pay developing countries to accept their wastes. In a strict Ec 10 interpretation of the transaction, everything is OK. Both parties presumably benefit from a mutually agreeable exchange, even when that exchange involves something as fiscally myopic as cash for environmental destruction...
What's worse, most of the Third World countries that accept the waste are even less adequately prepared to deal with it than the nations that send it. Without sophisticated facilities to dispose of the waste properly, it often contaminates the water supply and the surrounding land...
...University got a taste of the fruit that this strategy bears when Associate Professor Hue-Tam Ho Tai indicated Friday that she, unlike the two outside scholars wooed last week, will probably accept Harvard's tenure offer. An expert in Vietnamese history, Hue-Tam Ho Tai received her Ph.D. from Harvard...
Just one disagreement remains to be settled between the two chambers before the legislation goes to Bush--whether to accept a Senate proposal to ban federal aid to programs that buy hypodermic needles for intravenous drug users unless the president certifies that the effort helps prevent the spread of AIDS...