Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Potentially the most prolific tape dispenser is the video vending machine, which will accept a charge card for payment and deposit. More than 20 companies are developing devices with names like Le Bijou and the Movie Machine. U.S. Video Vending of Iselin, N.J., has already installed 100 soda- machine-size devices in apartment buildings, supermarkets and malls. One manufacturer predicts that 60,000 video vendors will be in operation...
...with Iranian officials of any rank concerning geopolitical questions. Iranian Prime Minister Mir Hussein Mousavi sneered last week that renewed contacts between the U.S. and Iran would be like "relations between the wolf and the lamb." Later Rafsanjani said the U.S. was "using every channel to beg Iran to accept establishing a dialogue with...
Waite's religious work has not been confined to the Anglican Church. Between 1972 and 1979 he served in Rome as an adviser to the Vatican on African missionary activities. He returned to London in 1980 to accept his current post with Runcie, thus becoming the first layman to be a personal aide to an Archbishop of Canterbury. While the job description called for someone who could handle mail and maintain links between the Archbishop and his 70 million-strong Anglican following around the world, Waite was not cut out for a desk job. The towering...
Last summer, the native of Storrs, Connecticut went to Mexico to do research for her senior thesis on refugees from the Spanish Civil War who took asylum in the Mexican Embassies. Although international law in the 1930s dictated that Mexico--which was antifascist and leftist--had to accept all political refugees, these Spanish refugees were mostly conservative and fascist sympathizers...
...Somebody has to dare oppose the favorite, the wealthiest," he said. "It's ironic that it falls to Republicans to oppose the rich and powerful. Somebody has to accept the high risk of defeat to keep winner decent and honest," Abt added...