Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...loner, outcast, a "voice in the woods": all these words describe a courageous, gallant senator who stuck to his principles when they were anathema to his party and to much of the nation. Weicker's forced departure proves that the Republican party, even in its triumph, is unwilling to accept opposing views, and this only limits further the number of Americans they can claim to represent...
Modern Israel was born in 1948 as a result of a territorial compromise, the partition of historical Palestine between Jews and Arabs. Yitzhak Shamir was one of a minority of Zionist extremists who refused to accept the compromise and have always believed that the West Bank should be part of the Jewish state of Israel...
...been perched on the edge of disaster. The magnitude of the threat became clear on Nov. 4, 1966, when a storm on the Adriatic Sea inundated St. Mark's Square in nearly 4 ft. of water and pounded the facade of its revered basilica. But Venetians have come to accept periodic flooding -- acqua alta (high water), they call it -- as a way of life, while city officials and the Italian government have been slow to realize that Venice's artistic and architectural treasures are in grave danger...
President Bok's decision to accept the union and go ahead with first contract negotiations merely strengthened the impact the campaign will have, labor experts said...
Managing Editor Michael S. Krivan '90, a Currier House resident who is organizing the magazine, said that the publication will accept articles from Quad residents...