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Word: acceptance (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Withers tells it, the final trusteevote on Counter was regarded as a formality. Itwas assumed he would accept, she said...

Author: By Teresa A. Mullin, | Title: Counter, Medgar Evers Spar Over Job | 8/2/1988 | See Source »

...report was expected to increase pressure onIraq to accept a cease-fire. Other U.N. reportshave said Iraq used chemical weapons, which areoutlawed under the 1925 Geneva Convention, and theSecurity Council recently condemned use of theillegal weapons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sec. Gen. to Set Iran-Iraq War Cease-Fire Date | 8/2/1988 | See Source »

...report was expected to increase pressure on Iraq to accept a cease-fire. Other U.N. reports have said Iraq used chemical weapons, which are outlawed under the 1925 Geneva Convention, and the Security Council recently condemned use of the illegal weapons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.N. Head to Announce Cease-Fire Date | 8/2/1988 | See Source »

...Congress was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1964 for sabotage and plotting to overthrow the government. Since undergoing a prostate operation in November 1985, he has been held in Pollsmoor's hospital wing. Each year he is allowed 30 visits of 40 minutes ; apiece, and he may write and accept one letter a week. Although his wife Winnie collected 50,000 greetings on his behalf last week, Mandela received his limit of twelve birthday cards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nelson Mandela: Unhappy Birthday | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

...young Americans aren't being taught to understand the world around them; they are growing up secure in the supremacy that ignorance breeds. It's easy to accept unquestioningly the xenophobia of "we're number one" if you can't even locate the competition on a map. Mom, baseball and apple pie thrive on a single-minded vision of the United States, one which hardly acknowledges the vast majority of the world's population...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: "Cuba's Next to China, Right?" | 7/29/1988 | See Source »

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