Word: acceptance
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...superpowers, has met periodically since it produced the 1975 Helsinki agreement, which ratified postwar borders and set minimum human-rights standards. But a single country's veto blocks decisions there, making it an awkward vehicle for asserting U.S. leadership in Europe. The European Community, on its part, cannot accept the U.S. as a member. That leaves NATO, where the U.S. has long been first among equals, as the heavy lifter in Baker's refurbished Atlantic house. By encouraging the alliance to become the main forum for setting Western defense policy, Baker wants to upgrade NATO to be the key transatlantic...
Ozone Depletion. Next April, representatives from scores of countries will meet in London to complete the agreement to phase out CFC production by the year 2000. But unless all major nations accept the ban, efforts to halt ozone depletion may prove fruitless...
...house near me worth a minimum of $65,000 was recently offered for sale by HUD for $50,000 (mistake No. 1). I bid $58,100, but lost it to a bid of $54,000 because the Government decided to accept the lower offer even before the bids were opened (mistake No. 2). One bumbled sale a real estate depression does not make. But if it's happening in my neighborhood, you have to wonder whether it won't be happening in others as well...
...more nationally defined republics could enjoy a much more independent status within the Soviet confederation. If they don't have that, then they will have to have some form of Great Russian nationalist dictatorship. I think Gorbachev is trying to persuade the non-Russian nations that they have to accept some form of yet undefined pluralism as the only alternative...
Migranyan noted Moscow's persistent rejection of reunification. "The Soviet Union is not yet ready to accept any form of reunification," he declared. "It would have a major destabilizing effect." Even a loose East-West German confederation, he said, would create internal problems for Gorbachev and tensions with the West. Migranyan suggested that the Soviet Union, the U.S., France and Britain formally agree to prevent any joining of the Germanys in the near future. Grunwald demurred, pointing out that the U.S. could never accept such a formal accord because of Washington's official commitment to the goal of reunification. Moreover...