Word: acceptance
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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...