Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate Finance Committee approved (11-4) and sent to the floor the unemployment-compensation bill already passed by the House. The bill extends unemployment benefits half again as many weeks as each state allows, provides that the Federal Government be reimbursed for such payments, gives states the option to accept or decline extended payments...
...fundamental indecision. Economically prosperous, politically cynical and weary, Frenchmen could not summon up enough enthusiasm for De Gaulle to rush to the barricades on his behalf. But for the most part they seemed not to feel enough hostility to offer him active opposition, were apparently prepared to accept him as ruler of France, if it came to that. When, early last week, France's two biggest unions called for a general work stoppage to bar De Gaulle's way to power, only 35,000 out of 600,000 Paris workers actually walked off their jobs...
Algeria's French colons, Soustelle thought, would also accept integration if given binding ties between Paris and Algiers. "If Algeria is separated from France," said he. "the Europeans get worried. But when Algeria becomes a really integrated part of France, the European minority knows that its rights will be protected by the government in Paris." As for the money to finance integration, Soustelle pointed to the oil and natural gas of the Sahara, then added: "Anyway, it will cost less than...
...week's end Beirut reported that Chamoun himself was showing some disposition to call off his U.N. complaint and accept a peacemaking government headed by his fellow Maronite, Army Chief Shehab. If so, the fundamental U.S. objective of maintaining an independent Lebanon, in delicate Moslem-Christian balance, would be better served than by widening the chaos. In the turbulent world of the Middle East, an ally may sometimes help its friends more by not making them too conspicuously dependent on its help...
...Suez showdown drove silver-haired President Camille Chamoun, 57, a Maronite Roman Catholic, as Lebanon Presidents must traditionally be,* to align Lebanon with the West, and later to accept the Eisenhower Doctrine. No sooner had he done so than Nasser flew into nearby Damascus to merge Syria into his new United Arab Republic and fire the hearts of Lebanese Moslems to join in the same sort of positive neutrality. Moslem opposition leaders were alarmed at the way President Chamoun, who won a three-quarters majority in last year's parliamentary elections, now proposed to alter the constitution so that...