Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...staff bases its position on the faulty reasoning that Judge Harmatz's decision was ipso facto legitimate and even-handed, and that the University's appeal would be union-busting of the most dire sort. But if one accepts that the NLRB judge has any legitimacy in the case, one must also accept that he could be fallible--especially after reading his obviously one-sided and almost hysterical decision--and his judgement worthy of appeal...
...tough for the team to swallow this," Kingston said. "It's tough for us to say we are the third-best team in New England when we gave up only two trys in seven games. All of this would have been much easier to accept if we had lost 20-0 instead...
While belatedly admitting past horrors, weapons officials refuse to accept responsibility in their single- minded mission to make nuclear bombs at all costs. Charges mount that radioactive wastes are poisoning the air and water and contaminating residents near facilities. And the costs of cleaning up and making aging facilities safe are staggering. See Environment...
Although only tenuous evidence can be presented that repealing the prevailing wage would result in lower taxes, repeal advocates have continually stressed this as a major campaign issue. As Mark Erlich of the Committee for Quality of Life said, "the phrase `tax savings' is a code word that people accept on faith. Our feeling is that we need to educate the public on a fairly complicated issue. In an age where simplistic arguments are winning, it is gratifying to have won so much support for this issue...
...endorse the repeal on the belief that local taxes might be marginally decreased is to accept a definition of community as being limited to a group of individuals gathered together with common borders, and nothing more. It is an abandonment of the idea that members of a community must grow together, work together, and protect each other...