Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whitehead, who did not accept her fee or sign over custody, took the child home with her. Three days later the Sterns collected the baby from the Whitehead home, but next morning Whitehead came by to beg for the infant's temporary return. After a two-hour encounter that both sides say was punctuated by emotional outbursts, the Sterns reluctantly agreed. "We thought she was suicidal," William Stern said. Two weeks later, when the Sterns came to her home, Whitehead told them she would not give up the child...
...control to the VCR in hand and a view of the grassy corral out the window, I remembered to look in the hallway. Sure enough the Mexican cleaning woman was lurking in the shadows, perched on a set of drawers and gobbling down her bag lunch. She would never accept my invitation to join me at the table, she only smiled...
Amartya Sen, currently a professor of political economy at Oxford and President of the International Economics Association, said yesterday that he has not decided whether he will accept the offer...
...handle their workload. A survey by the Government's General Accounting Office last March produced some disturbing findings: an overwhelming 91% of controllers complained that the system does not have enough qualified controllers, 70% reported that they handle more traffic in peak periods than they should be required to accept, 69% claimed that their heavy workloads adversely affect air safety. In the fiscal year before the 1981 strike, controllers put in 377,000 hours of overtime; in 1985 they worked an extra 908,000 hours...
...bans on parish education, evangelism and distribution of Christian literature. Several high-ranking Russian Orthodox ecclesiastics have recently been seen on TV newscasts, usually appearing as supporters of the Kremlin's disarmament policies. Severe persecution is aimed primarily at groups such as those Pentecostalists and Baptists who refuse to accept Soviet controls...