Word: acceptant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strange directions. But last week in Havana, as he met with 75 mostly U.S.-based Cuban exile leaders, the dictator seemed to have something humanitarian in mind. He promised to release about 3,000 Cuban political prisoners currently languishing in his jails if the U.S. would agree to accept most of them as refugees. In addition, he pledged an easing of travel restrictions to bring together Cuban families separated by years of exile, a plan that Castro said could affect as many as 50,000 people...
...Washington, officials seemed ready to accept Castro's amnesty proposal at face value. "Better behavior on human rights is bound to improve the climate," said a State Department Cuban specialist. In the past, Attorney General Griffin Bell, worried about possible infiltrators among amnestied refugees, has insisted on rigid and lengthy screening procedures. Castro mocked that cautious approach last week, arguing that "no U.S. Administration can deny these people." This time, Washington has said it will try to speed up the process...
...enough. "No!" he declares angrily. The nation's inflation rate is at 12%. To breach wage guidelines with yet another raise for a major union would destroy the government's efforts to stabilize the economy. Startled by the Premier's vehemence, the union leaders accept his face-saving compromise for a raise that falls below government limits...
Foremost among the Thomson demands is an end to the wildcat disruptions that have earned the Sunday Times, hardest hit by job actions, the nickname Some Times. The papers' 54 chapels (bargaining units) are also being pressed to accept manning reductions and cost-saving new technology. In exchange, management is offering higher wages and better benefits. The two papers intend to trim 700 or more of their 4,300 workers over the next three years through attrition and voluntary retirements...
...estimates, almost 500,000 U.S. families will be schooling their children at home. That figure, he concedes, comes "out of a blue sky," yet it might not be all that fanciful. More and more parents are becoming disenchanted with rigid programs, school strikes and the reluctance of teachers to accept responsibility for students' failures to learn...