Word: acceptible
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week's end, however, it was still unclear whether the Senators would accept the "clarification" as sufficient. They could still demand that its language be worked into a protocol or into the treaty itself. That would involve an arduous renegotiation effort that would certainly consume much time and might well spur the Panamanians to demand even larger concessions from Washington. Argues U.S. Negotiator Sol Linowitz: "Everything we wanted is in that treaty now, in that language...
...State Cyrus Vance about a new Geneva peace conference (TIME, Oct. 17). Dayan gave his harsh account of the talks-Washington insisted they were "direct," perhaps even "blunt," but far from "brutal"-during a Knesset debate on the working paper on Geneva that he and the American leaders had accepted. The Foreign Minister was defending himself against opposition charges that he had knuckled under to Washington's pressure by tacitly accepting a Palestine Liberation Organization presence at Geneva. As proof to the contrary, he read out an official text of the hitherto secret agreement. Dayan's disclosures about...
...action has only begun to generate significant change. In 1950, 2% of the nation's doctors were black, and this percentage remains unchanged. Similarly, blacks still make up only 3.4% of the nation's lawyers and only 1% of its engineers. And now that most organizations finally accept at least the idea of affirmative action, the limited gains have strengthened demands for outright quotas for the benefit of minorities. That is far more controversial, particularly among Jews, who remember the all too recent days of quotas that excluded them from graduate schools and top jobs...
Bruce A. Ackerman, Yale Law School: "The court will accept benevolent quotas. The basic idea will be that it is permissible for Government to act to redress past grievances...
Nathanson said yesterday he will not accept the visa, granted for November 20, because he enjoys being at Harvard and has just signed a lease on a Cambridge apartment. However, he said he plans to ask NAS to sponsor him in a delayed trip to the Soviet Union in late spring...