Word: acceptible
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...main street and set between two brown mountains in the Appalachian foothills. Once a brawling town that sprouted no fewer than 37 bars during a mining and railroad boom in the early 1940s, Oceana (pop. 1,580) is one of the few communities in which the miners voted to accept the latest proposed contract and go back to work. Although they are members of U.M.W. District 17, one of the union's most militant, they voted contrary to their brothers on the other side of the mountains and endorsed the contract, 409 votes...
Then, too, no one in Oceana thought the contract was really a good one. The majority who voted to accept it did so mainly on complicated tactical grounds. They feared that failure to accept could lead to the breakdown of their union, the end of nationwide bargaining and thus the loss of their hard-won retirement benefits. The local has 300 retirees, who have not received a pension check since January because the old retirement fund is broke; the contract would have set up a new fund. "We felt that a contract would give some guaranteed protection to the retirees...
There were times, during the eighteen years of our collaboration, when I could not understand [Nasser] or accept his actions; but the love I bore him never diminished. He, on the other hand, had been in the grip of "complexes" since childhood and was often motivated by them; and he, as well as many of his entourage, suffered as a result...
...Would you accept an American proposal...
...along with other budget-trimming measures, without consulting the people involved in the affected programs. Hockey coach Bob Finke, who learned that his team had been eliminated only after reading a story in The Daily Pennsylvanian, characterized the feelings of many when he said, "The decision, you've gotta accept that. The thing I'm bitter about is how the decision was relayed to me and the kids...