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Word: accepter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these proposals and their many variants have one thing in common: the assumption that because the U.S.S.R. refuses to accept reunification of Germany by free elections (as it originally promised), the West must buy a German settlement by surrendering some of its own positions of strength. Sole exception to this rule is the formula advanced by Sir Anthony Eden at Geneva in 1955, and revived in the House of Commons last week by Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd. Its basic provisions: Germany should be reunited by free elections and allowed to determine its own foreign policy (the NATO treaty does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHAT TO DO ABOUT GERMANY?: The Rise or Rapacki Fever | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

...chance to own gold bars holds an appeal for both ultracautious and speculative buyers. Investors willing to pay cash, forgo dividends and interest, and accept the hazard of a gradual decline in the buying power of their money, can get high safety and liquidity. Speculators can buy a 1-kilo bar for as little as $34 margin plus $63 a year on the unpaid balance, stand to turn a handsome profit if the price of gold should rise. In effect, they bet that the U.S. Treasury, which has been able to corner more than half of the free world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Gold on Margin | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

...times are inspired. But the master illusionist is Rattigan, and his illusion is based on the sly discovery that in an age of changing values, if one wishes to seem mature in emotional matters, it is not really necessary to see people as they are, but only to accept people as they seem. The fact is that Playwright Rattigan does not appear to care very much about human beings; he cares about theatrical effects. Nevertheless, his effects are far more subtly effective than those of a mere external showman. He is the Barnum of the inner life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Dec. 15, 1958 | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

...Medical Service. Patterned after programs now available only in limited areas under local Blue Shield auspices, it would encourage a nationwide system of low-cost, prepaid voluntary health insurance for oldsters below a certain income level (not yet determined). To make the plan work, physicians must agree to accept lower-than-usual fees for their services to such patients. The all-powerful House of Delegates approved the plan unanimously, thus put the A.M.A. on record as urging its 176,000 members to get behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The A.M.A. & the Aged | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

...entitled to. Wrote London's Financial Times: "The international labour boycott is a dangerous and, in principle, undesirable practise; on the other hand, these shipowners have deliberately put themselves outside national loyalties and cannot claim their protection. They cannot ask for the benefit of responsibilities they do not accept, or of taxes they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: World Boycott | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

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